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Taxonomy
Family:
LATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Chilinoidea (Superfamily)
> Latiidae (Family)
> Latia (Genus)
> climoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelex Gould, 1852
Images: Latia climoi Starobogatov, 1986
Holotype, collected 29 Nov 1963, Hutt River, NZ (M.158239). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 29 Nov 1963, Hutt River, NZ (M.158239). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 29 Nov 1963, Hutt River, NZ (M.158239). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
LATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Chilinoidea (Superfamily)
> Latiidae (Family)
> Latia (Genus)
> climoi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelex Gould, 1852
Details: Latia climoi Starobogatov, 1986
Size/Grows to:
Length 7mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Hutt River
Geographical Range:
Fw.N.
Notes:
Freshwater Limpet, Freshwater, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A. 2011 A new species of Latia Gray, 1850 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hygrophila: Chilinoidea: Latiidae) from Miocene Palaeo-lake Manuherikia, southern New Zealand, and biogeographic implications, Molluscan Research, 31(1) (p.48)
  • Starobogatov, Y.I. 1986 On the taxonomy of the gastropod molluscan genus Latia (Gastropoda Pulmonata Latiidae), Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, 148 (p.93) 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
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