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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
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)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Phacussa (Genus)
> lucetta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phacussa) Hutton, 1883
=Phelussa Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Patula) stokesi E.A. Smith, 1884
=Neophenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
=Neophenacohelix stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Patula lucetta Hutton, 1884
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Phenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Images: Phacussa lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
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)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Phacussa (Genus)
> lucetta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phacussa) Hutton, 1883
=Phelussa Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Patula) stokesi E.A. Smith, 1884
=Neophenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
=Neophenacohelix stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Patula lucetta Hutton, 1884
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Phenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Details: Phacussa lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Size/Grows to:
Width 7.5mm, Height 4.5mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Geographical Range:
L.N.S.
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Goulstone, J.F. 2001 A revision of the genus Phenacohelix Suter, 1892 (Mollusca: Pulmonata) with descriptions of four new species and reassignment of Thalassohelix ziczag (Gould, 1846), Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 38 (p.57)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.323)

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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