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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 in Dieffenbach, 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 in Dieffenbach, 1843)
Size/Grows to:
Height 25mm, Width 15mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Geographical Range:
Fw.N.S.E.
Notes:
Freshwater, Endemic, Sinistral
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.297)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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