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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ACHATINELLIDAE: TORNATELLIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Pupilloidei (Infraorder)
> Pupilloidea (Superfamily)
> Achatinellidae (Family)
> Tornatellidinae (Subfamily)
> Tornatellides (Genus)
> subperforatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ambrosiella Odhner, 1963
=Tornatellides (Aedituans) C. M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Ambrosiella) Odhner, 1963 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Tornatellides) Pilsbry, 1910 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Waimea) Pilsbry & C.M. Cooke, 1915 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Tornatellina subperforata Suter, 1909
Images: Tornatellides subperforatus (Suter, 1909)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 3.3mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Syntype, collected Whangarei Heads, NZ (M.125187). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ACHATINELLIDAE: TORNATELLIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Pupilloidei (Infraorder)
> Pupilloidea (Superfamily)
> Achatinellidae (Family)
> Tornatellidinae (Subfamily)
> Tornatellides (Genus)
> subperforatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ambrosiella Odhner, 1963
=Tornatellides (Aedituans) C. M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Ambrosiella) Odhner, 1963 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Tornatellides) Pilsbry, 1910 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Waimea) Pilsbry & C.M. Cooke, 1915 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Tornatellina subperforata Suter, 1909
Details: Tornatellides subperforatus (Suter, 1909)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.5mm, Width 2.2mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland to East Cape
Geographical Range:
L.N.
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Goulstone, J.F., Mayhill, P.C., Parrish, G.R. 1993 An Illustrated Guide to the Land Mollusca of the Te Paki ecological region, Northland, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34 (p.6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.302)

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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