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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Cavellia (Genus)
> marstoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) marstoni Climo, 1969
Images: Cavellia marstoni (Climo, 1969)
Collected 26 Jan 1966, Mount Arthur Track, W of Motueka, Tasman, NZ (M.022462). 3.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 26 Jan 1966, Mount Arthur Track, W of Motueka, Tasman, NZ (M.022462). 3.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 26 Jan 1966, Mount Arthur Track, W of Motueka, Tasman, NZ (M.022462). 3.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Charopidae (Family)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Cavellia (Genus)
> marstoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) marstoni Climo, 1969
Details: Cavellia marstoni (Climo, 1969)
Size/Grows to:
Width 3.2mm
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.305)
  • Climo, F.M. 1969 Classification of New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata). 2. A revision of Charopa subgenus Ptychodon Ancey, 1888, Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(13) (p.195) Original Description

*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
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