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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: PEDIPEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Pedipedinae (Subfamily)
> Leuconopsis (Genus)
> obsoleta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Apodosis Pilsbry & McGinty, 1949
Synonymised Names:
=Leuconia obsoleta Hutton, 1878 (original combination)
Images: Leuconopsis obsoleta (Hutton, 1878)
Port Hutt, NW Chatham Islands, under rocks above high tide. 3mm
In beach drift, Kaikoura Peninsula, NZ. 3mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: PEDIPEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Pedipedinae (Subfamily)
> Leuconopsis (Genus)
> obsoleta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Apodosis Pilsbry & McGinty, 1949
Synonymised Names:
=Leuconia obsoleta Hutton, 1878 (original combination)
Details: Leuconopsis obsoleta (Hutton, 1878)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3mm, Width 1.75mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart, Chatham and Auckland Islands. Under high-tidal stones and decaying sea-grass
Geographical Range:
ACFMAnR.Fo.
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Walsby, J.R., Morton, J.E. 1982 Chitons, Limpets & Topshells & Pulmonates (Amphineura, Archaeogastropoda & Pulmonata), Marine Molluscs, University of Auckland, Leigh Marine Laboratory, 1 (p.75)
  • Spencer, H.G. Dec/1979 Leuconopsis obsoleta (Hutton, 1878), from a low tidal habitat, Poirieria, 10(4) (p.56)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.295)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 The High-Tidal Mollusca of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; with descriptions of a new Genus and two new Species, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 63 (p.150)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1878 Révision des coquilles de la Nouvelle-Zélande et des Iles Chatham, Journal de Conchyliologie, 26 (p.43) Original Description

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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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