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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)
> Neophenacohelix (Genus)
> ziczac (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Theba) ziczac Gould, 1846
=Helix portia Gray, 1850
=Helix ziczac Gould, 1846
=Phenacohelix ziczac (Gould, 1846)
=Phenacohelix ziczag of authors
Images: Neophenacohelix ziczac (Gould, 1846)
Collected near Mangakahia Stream, west of Te Kuiti, Waikato, NZ. 7.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected near Mangakahia Stream, west of Te Kuiti, Waikato, NZ. 7.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected near Mangakahia Stream, west of Te Kuiti, Waikato, NZ. 7.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ
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)
> Neophenacohelix (Genus)
> ziczac (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Theba) ziczac Gould, 1846
=Helix portia Gray, 1850
=Helix ziczac Gould, 1846
=Phenacohelix ziczac (Gould, 1846)
=Phenacohelix ziczag of authors
Details: Neophenacohelix ziczac (Gould, 1846)
Size/Grows to:
Width 8.5mm, Height 5mm
Distribution:
North Island, Taranaki northwards
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.77)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.318)
  • Gould, A. 1847 New species of Helix, from the Shells of the Exploring Expedition, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 2 (p.166) Original Description

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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