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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMOCONCHINAE
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)
> Flammoconchinae (Subfamily)
> Calymna (Genus)
> montana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammocharopa Climo, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Flammocharopa montana (Suter, 1891)
=Patula bianca var. montana Suter, 1891 (original combination)
Images: Calymna montana (Suter, 1891)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMOCONCHINAE
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)
> Flammoconchinae (Subfamily)
> Calymna (Genus)
> montana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammocharopa Climo, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Flammocharopa montana (Suter, 1891)
=Patula bianca var. montana Suter, 1891 (original combination)
Details: Calymna montana (Suter, 1891)
Size/Grows to:
Width 3.2mm
Distribution:
South Island. Canterbury to central Otago
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.308)

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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