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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)
> Thalassohelix (Genus)
> laingi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Thalassohelix) Pilsbry, 1892
=Gerontia (Thalassohelix) Pilsbry, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Thalassohelix) laingi Suter, 1905
Images: Thalassohelix laingi (Suter, 1905)
Western end of Te Waewae Bay, Southland, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Western end of Te Waewae Bay, Southland, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Western end of Te Waewae Bay, Southland, NZ. 8.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Syntype, collected Longwood Range, NW of Invercargill, NZ (M.125122). 15mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected Longwood Range, NW of Invercargill, NZ (M.125122). 15mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected Longwood Range, NW of Invercargill, NZ (M.125122). 15mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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)
> Thalassohelix (Genus)
> laingi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Thalassohelix) Pilsbry, 1892
=Gerontia (Thalassohelix) Pilsbry, 1892
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Thalassohelix) laingi Suter, 1905
Details: Thalassohelix laingi (Suter, 1905)
Size/Grows to:
Width 16.8mm, Height 9mm
Distribution:
South Island. Southland
Type Data:
  • Longwood Range, NW of Invercargill, NZ, (syntype)
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.318)
  • Suter, H. 1905 Description of a new Flammulina from New Zealand, Journal of Malacology, 12 (p.19) 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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