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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Delos (Genus)
> jeffreysiana (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Delos jeffreysiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
=Helix jeffreysiana L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Helix jeffreysiana Reeve, 1852
Images: Delos jeffreysiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Whareorino Range, W of Te Kuiti, King Country, NZ. 6.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Whareorino Range, W of Te Kuiti, King Country, NZ. 6.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Whareorino Range, W of Te Kuiti, King Country, NZ. 6.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Delos (Genus)
> jeffreysiana (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Delos jeffreysiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
=Helix jeffreysiana L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Helix jeffreysiana Reeve, 1852
Details: Delos jeffreysiana (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Width 7mm, Height 3mm
Distribution:
Northland Peninsula and offshore Islands. Three Kings, Poor Knights, Great Barrier Island
Geographical Range:
L.N.
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.348)

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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
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