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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMULININAE
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)
> Flammulininae (Subfamily)
> Flammulina (Genus)
> chiron (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphidoxa (Calymna) Hutton, 1883
=Flammulina (Calymna) Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Zonites chiron Gray, 1850
Images: Flammulina chiron (Gray, 1850)
Mt. Ngongotaha summit, Rotorua, Central Plateau, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Mt. Ngongotaha summit, Rotorua, Central Plateau, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Mt. Ngongotaha summit, Rotorua, Central Plateau, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMULININAE
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)
> Flammulininae (Subfamily)
> Flammulina (Genus)
> chiron (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Amphidoxa (Calymna) Hutton, 1883
=Flammulina (Calymna) Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Zonites chiron Gray, 1850
Details: Flammulina chiron (Gray, 1850)
Size/Grows to:
Width 7.0mm, Height 3.5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Hokianga to Wellington
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.313)
  • 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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