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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)
> Microtralia (Genus)
> insularis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Rangitotoa Powell, 1933
Synonymised Names:
=Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933
=Microtralia occidentalis Climo, 1982
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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)
> Microtralia (Genus)
> insularis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Rangitotoa Powell, 1933
Synonymised Names:
=Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933
=Microtralia occidentalis Climo, 1982
Details: Microtralia insularis (Powell, 1933)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.7mm, Width 2mm
Distribution:
Auckland region, Rangitoto Island, Manukau and Waitemata Harbours
Geographical Range:
AC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • de Frias Martins, A.M. 1996 Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), Malacologia, 37(2) (p.236)
  • 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)
  • Climo, F.M. 1982 The systematic status of Auricula (Alexia) meridionalis Brazier, 1877 and Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Ellobiidae) in Australasia, National Museum of New Zealand Records, 2 (p.44)
  • 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.149) Original Description

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