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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
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:
Off Three Kings Islands, throughout NZ and Chatham Islands. Living inside the lip of gastropods
Geographical Range:
ACFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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