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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
LYMNAEIDAE: AMPHIPEPLEINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Lymnaeidae (Family)
> Amphipepleinae (Subfamily)
> Austropeplea (Genus)
> tomentosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Glacilimnea Iredale, 1943
=Simlimnea Iredale, 1943
Synonymised Names:
=Austropeplea (Austropeplea) tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Austropeplea tomentosa hamiltoni (Dell, 1956) accepted, alternate representation
=Lymnaea subscalariformis Suter, 1917
=Lymnoea subscalariformis Suter, 1917
=Succinea tomentosa L. Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination)
Images: Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Collected Wellington, NZ (M.125540). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Birch Hill Lagoon, Tasman Valley, S of Mount Cook, NZ (M.125108). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
LYMNAEIDAE: AMPHIPEPLEINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Lymnaeidae (Family)
> Amphipepleinae (Subfamily)
> Austropeplea (Genus)
> tomentosa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Glacilimnea Iredale, 1943
=Simlimnea Iredale, 1943
Synonymised Names:
=Austropeplea (Austropeplea) tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Austropeplea tomentosa hamiltoni (Dell, 1956) accepted, alternate representation
=Lymnaea subscalariformis Suter, 1917
=Lymnoea subscalariformis Suter, 1917
=Succinea tomentosa L. Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination)
Details: Austropeplea tomentosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Size/Grows to:
Height 13mm, Width 9mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Type Data:
  • Auckland, NZ (Freshwater), (holotype)
  • Hamilton's Moa Swamp (Enfield), NW of Oamaru, NZ (Freshwater), (holotype of Austropeplea tomentosa hamiltoni (Dell, 1956), paratype of Austropeplea tomentosa hamiltoni (Dell, 1956))
Notes:
Freshwater, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Climo, F.M. 1984 The taxonomic status of Lymnaea subscalariformis Suter, 1917 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Lymnaeidae) (Note), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 27(3) (p.387)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.296)

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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