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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-eastern and south-western North Island, and South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Marine, Recent, Fossil, Native - Endemic, Under high-tidal stones and decaying sea-grass
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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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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