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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)
> Ptychodon (Genus)
> blacki (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) Ancey, 1888
=Endodonta (Ptychodon) Ancey, 1888
=Huttonella Suter, 1890
=Maoriana Suter, 1891
Images: Ptychodon blacki Dell, 1955
Holotype, collected 13 Mar 1949, Stillwater River, Caswell Sound head, NZ (M.006156). 1.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 13 Mar 1949, Stillwater River, Caswell Sound head, NZ (M.006156). 1.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 13 Mar 1949, Stillwater River, Caswell Sound head, NZ (M.006156). 1.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected near Wairurahiri Hut, SW of Tuatapere, Southland, NZ. 1.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected near Wairurahiri Hut, SW of Tuatapere, Southland, NZ. 1.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected near Wairurahiri Hut, SW of Tuatapere, Southland, NZ. 1.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
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)
> Ptychodon (Genus)
> blacki (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) Ancey, 1888
=Endodonta (Ptychodon) Ancey, 1888
=Huttonella Suter, 1890
=Maoriana Suter, 1891
Details: Ptychodon blacki Dell, 1955
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.180)
  • Dell, R.K. 1955 The land Mollusca of Fiordland, south-west Otago, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 82(5) (p.1142) 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
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