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Taxonomy
Family:
HIPPONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Hipponicidae (Family)
> Leptonotis (Genus)
> perplexus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Neojanacus Suter, 1907
Synonymised Names:
=Neojanacus perplexus Suter, 1907
=Neojanacus wharekuriensis Laws, 1935
Images: Leptonotis perplexus (Suter, 1907)
Found living inside lip of deepwater gastropods, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 20mm. © rights reserved
Holotype of Neojanacus perplexus, collected 22 Jan 1904, E of Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ (M.001629). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
HIPPONICIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Vanikoioidea (Superfamily)
> Hipponicidae (Family)
> Leptonotis (Genus)
> perplexus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Neojanacus Suter, 1907
Synonymised Names:
=Neojanacus perplexus Suter, 1907
=Neojanacus wharekuriensis Laws, 1935
Details: Leptonotis perplexus (Suter, 1907)
Size/Grows to:
Length 20mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
Three Kings, North, South, Stewart and Snares Islands and Chatham Rise, from 55-840m
Type Data:
  • 185 metres, off Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ, (holotype of Neojanacus perplexus Suter, 1907)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Living inside the lip of gastropods
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.146)
  • Jul/1970 Neojancus perplexus Suter, 1907, Poirieria, 5(4) (p.60)
  • Suter, H. 1907 Notes on, and additions to, the New Zealand molluscan fauna, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 39 (p.266) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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