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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: MIRATESTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Miratestinae (Subfamily)
> Glyptophysa (Genus)
> variabilis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) Crosse, 1872
=Glyptophysa (Oppletora) Iredale, 1943
=Lenameria Iredale, 1943
=Physa (Physastra) Tapparone Canefri, 1883
=Physastra Tapparone Canefri, 1883
=Tasmadora Iredale, 1943
Synonymised Names:
=Physa antipodea G. B. Sowerby II, 1873
=Physa hochstetteri Dunker, 1862
=Physa novaezelandiae G. B. Sowerby II, 1873
=Physa variabilis Gray, 1843
Images: Glyptophysa variabilis (Gray, 1843)
Collected 21 Oct 1973, Motukaramu Soda Springs, west of Aria, King Country, NZ. 6.9mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: MIRATESTINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Miratestinae (Subfamily)
> Glyptophysa (Genus)
> variabilis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Glyptophysa (Glyptophysa) Crosse, 1872
=Glyptophysa (Oppletora) Iredale, 1943
=Lenameria Iredale, 1943
=Physa (Physastra) Tapparone Canefri, 1883
=Physastra Tapparone Canefri, 1883
=Tasmadora Iredale, 1943
Synonymised Names:
=Physa antipodea G. B. Sowerby II, 1873
=Physa hochstetteri Dunker, 1862
=Physa novaezelandiae G. B. Sowerby II, 1873
=Physa variabilis Gray, 1843
Details: Glyptophysa variabilis (Gray, 1843)
Size/Grows to:
Height 25mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Notes:
Freshwater, Native - Endemic, Sinistral
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.297)

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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