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Taxonomy
Family:
OXYCHILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Limacoidei (Infraorder)
> Gastrodontoidea (Superfamily)
> Oxychilidae (Family)
> Oxychilus (Genus)
> alliarius (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Helix alliaria J.S. Miller, 1822
=Oxychilus (Ortizius) alliarius (J.S. Miller, 1822) accepted, alternate representation
=Oxychilus tasmanicus McLaughlan, 1954
Images: Oxychilus alliarius (J.S. Miller, 1822)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 6.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 6.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 6.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family:
OXYCHILIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Limacoidei (Infraorder)
> Gastrodontoidea (Superfamily)
> Oxychilidae (Family)
> Oxychilus (Genus)
> alliarius (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Helix alliaria J.S. Miller, 1822
=Oxychilus (Ortizius) alliarius (J.S. Miller, 1822) accepted, alternate representation
=Oxychilus tasmanicus McLaughlan, 1954
Details: Oxychilus alliarius (J.S. Miller, 1822)
Size/Grows to:
Width 7mm, Height 3.5mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Geographical Range:
L.N.S.
Notes:
Land, Native in northern and western Europe. Introduced into Greenland, North America, St Helena, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Barker, G.M. 1999 Naturalised Terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda), Fauna of New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua Press (p.109)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.449)

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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