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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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> eta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix corniculum Reeve, 1852
=Helix eta L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Mocella cogitata Iredale, 1941
=Patula corniculum (Reeve, 1852)
=caputspinulae of authors
Images: Mocella eta (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> eta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix corniculum Reeve, 1852
=Helix eta L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Mocella cogitata Iredale, 1941
=Patula corniculum (Reeve, 1852)
=caputspinulae of authors
Details: Mocella eta (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.8mm, Height 1.3mm
Distribution:
North, South and Chatham Islands
Geographical Range:
L.N.S.
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.11)
  • Climo, F.M. 1981 Classification of the New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata) 8: Notes on some charopid species with descriptions of new taxa (Charopidae), National Museum of New Zealand Records, 2(3) (p.10)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.309)

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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