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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)
> lateralis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelex Gould, 1852
Synonymised Names:
=Pelex lateralis Gould, 1852
Images: Latia lateralis (Gould, 1852)
Collected Hatea River, Whangarei, Northland, NZ
Collected Hatea River, Whangarei, Northland, NZ
Collected Hatea River, Whangarei, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family:
LATIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Chilinoidea (Superfamily)
> Latiidae (Family)
> Latia (Genus)
> lateralis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pelex Gould, 1852
Synonymised Names:
=Pelex lateralis Gould, 1852
Details: Latia lateralis (Gould, 1852)
Distribution:
North Island, S Auckland northwards
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)

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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