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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
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)

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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