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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Phenacohelix (Genus)
> ponsonbyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) Suter, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) ponsonbyi Suter, 1897
=Flammulina ponsonbyi Suter, 1897
Images: Phenacohelix ponsonbyi (Suter, 1897)
Collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (M.125160). 5.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (M.125160). 5.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (M.125160). 5.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Paralectotype, collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (MA73082). 5.5mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (MA73082). 5.5mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected Mount Wellington lava fields, Auckland, NZ (MA73082). 5.5mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Phenacohelix (Genus)
> ponsonbyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) Suter, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) ponsonbyi Suter, 1897
=Flammulina ponsonbyi Suter, 1897
Details: Phenacohelix ponsonbyi (Suter, 1897)
Size/Grows to:
Width 6mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
North Island. Auckland to East Cape and Wanganui
Geographical Range:
L.N.
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.66)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.322)
  • Suter, H. 1897 Notes on some New Zealand Flammulina, with the description of F. ponsonbyi, n.sp, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2 (p.285) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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