Quick Search
To Advanced Search
Taxonomy
Family:
ATHORACOPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Succineoidei (Infraorder)
> Athoracophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Athoracophoridae (Family)
> Athoracophorus (Genus)
> maculosus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Conophora Suter, 1913
=Janella Gray, 1850
=Neojanella Cockerell, 1891
=Vomanus Iredale, 1915
=Vomanus Iredale, 1915
Images: Athoracophorus maculosus Burton, 1963
No images yet of this species.
If you have good photos you would like to share, please email me, and I can add them here.
Taxonomy
Family:
ATHORACOPHORIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Succineoidei (Infraorder)
> Athoracophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Athoracophoridae (Family)
> Athoracophorus (Genus)
> maculosus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Conophora Suter, 1913
=Janella Gray, 1850
=Neojanella Cockerell, 1891
=Vomanus Iredale, 1915
=Vomanus Iredale, 1915
Details: Athoracophorus maculosus Burton, 1963
Distribution:
South Island. West Nelson
Geographical Range:
L.S.
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.298)
  • Burton, D.W. 1963 A revision of the New Zealand and subantarctic Athoracophoridae, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3(6) (p.53) 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