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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Obanella (Genus)
> rimutaka (Species)
Images: Obanella rimutaka Dell, 1952
Takapari Road transect, Wairarapa, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Takapari Road transect, Wairarapa, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Takapari Road transect, Wairarapa, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
North of Maunganui trig, Maunganui Bluff, Northland, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
North of Maunganui trig, Maunganui Bluff, Northland, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
North of Maunganui trig, Maunganui Bluff, Northland, NZ. 1.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Holotype, collected 5 Oct 1940, Rimutaka Range, W of Featherston, bush remnant beside SH2, NZ (M.005538). 1.6mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 5 Oct 1940, Rimutaka Range, W of Featherston, bush remnant beside SH2, NZ (M.005538). 1.6mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 5 Oct 1940, Rimutaka Range, W of Featherston, bush remnant beside SH2, NZ (M.005538). 1.6mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Obanella (Genus)
> rimutaka (Species)
Details: Obanella rimutaka Dell, 1952
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.75mm
Distribution:
North and South Islands
Geographical Range:
L.N.
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.333)
  • Dell, R.K. 1952 New species and genera of New Zealand land snails with a revision of the genus Cavellia, Dominion Museum Records in Zoology, 1(9) (p.91) 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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