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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)
> Suteria (Genus)
> ide (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gerontia (Suteria) Pilsbry, 1892
=Patulopsis Suter, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Helix ide Gray, 1850
Images: Suteria ide (Gray, 1850)
Hen Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hen Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hen Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Mitimiti, south of Kaitaia, Northland, NZ. 7.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Mitimiti, south of Kaitaia, Northland, NZ. 7.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Mitimiti, south of Kaitaia, Northland, NZ. 7.1mm. 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)
> Suteria (Genus)
> ide (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Gerontia (Suteria) Pilsbry, 1892
=Patulopsis Suter, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Helix ide Gray, 1850
Details: Suteria ide (Gray, 1850)
Size/Grows to:
Width 9mm, Height 4.5mm
Distribution:
North and South Island. Whangaroa to Hokitika
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Hazelwood, B.F. Sep/1983 Albinoism recorded within the land snail Suteria ide (Gray, 1850), Cookia, 5(3) (p.7)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.312)
  • Gray, J.E. 1850 Description of a new genus and several new species of terrestrial, fluviatile, and marine molluscous animals inhabiting New Zealand, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (p.166) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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