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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)
> Fectola (Genus)
> varicosa (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Fectola varicosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
=Helix varicosa Reeve, 1852
=Helix varicosa L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Thaumatodon iredalia Webster, 1908
Images: Fectola varicosa Reeve, 1852
Collected Ashley Gorge, N of Oxford, NZ (M.012143). ~3.0mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Ashley Gorge, N of Oxford, NZ (M.012143). ~3.0mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Ashley Gorge, N of Oxford, NZ (M.012143). ~3.0mm. © 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)
> Fectola (Genus)
> varicosa (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Fectola varicosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
=Helix varicosa Reeve, 1852
=Helix varicosa L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Thaumatodon iredalia Webster, 1908
Details: Fectola varicosa Reeve, 1852
Size/Grows to:
Width 4mm, Height 2.1mm
Distribution:
South Island
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.306)
  • Climo, F.M. 1978 Classification of the New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata): A review of the New Zealand Charopine snails with lamellate apertures, National Museum of New Zealand Records, 1(11) (p.187)

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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