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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: ROTADISCINAE
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)
> Rotadiscinae (Subfamily)
> Alsolemia (Genus)
> cresswelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ptychodon (Solemia) Climo, 1978
=Solemia Climo, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Ptychodon (Solemia) cresswelli Climo, 1978
Images: Alsolemia cresswelli (Climo, 1978)
Opoho Creek headwaters, Dunedin, NZ. 2.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Opoho Creek headwaters, Dunedin, NZ. 2.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Opoho Creek headwaters, Dunedin, NZ. 2.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Holotype, collected 21 Oct 1968, Blacks Gully (Blacks Bush), Dunedin town belt, NZ (M.056072). 2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 21 Oct 1968, Blacks Gully (Blacks Bush), Dunedin town belt, NZ (M.056072). 2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 21 Oct 1968, Blacks Gully (Blacks Bush), Dunedin town belt, NZ (M.056072). 2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: ROTADISCINAE
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)
> Rotadiscinae (Subfamily)
> Alsolemia (Genus)
> cresswelli (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ptychodon (Solemia) Climo, 1978
=Solemia Climo, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Ptychodon (Solemia) cresswelli Climo, 1978
Details: Alsolemia cresswelli (Climo, 1978)
Distribution:
South Island
Geographical Range:
L.S.
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Climo, F.M. 1978 Classification of the New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata): A review of the New Zealand Charopine snails with lamellate apertures, National Museum of New Zealand Records, 1(11) (p.183) 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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