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Taxonomy
Family:
ORBITESTELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Orbitestelloidea (Superfamily)
> Orbitestellidae (Family)
> Orbitestella (Genus)
> hinemoa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omalogyra (Omalogyrina) Magne & Vergneau-Saubade, 1973
=Orbitestella (Omalogyrina) Magne & Vergneau-Saubade, 1973
Images: Orbitestella hinemoa Mestayer, 1919
Holotype, collected off The Snares, NZ (M.001065). 1mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
ORBITESTELLIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> 'Lower Heterobranchia' (Infraclass)
> Orbitestelloidea (Superfamily)
> Orbitestellidae (Family)
> Orbitestella (Genus)
> hinemoa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omalogyra (Omalogyrina) Magne & Vergneau-Saubade, 1973
=Orbitestella (Omalogyrina) Magne & Vergneau-Saubade, 1973
Details: Orbitestella hinemoa Mestayer, 1919
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.0mm, Height 0.33mm
Distribution:
Cook Strait, Fiordland, Otago, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, Snares and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
CFMAn
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.118)
  • Mestayer, M. 1919 New species of Mollusca from various dredgings taken off the coast of New Zealand, the Snares Islands, and the Bounty Islands, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 51 (p.131) 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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