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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
Notes:
Land, Non-indigenous, Native in northern and western Europe. Introduced into Greenland, North America, St Helena, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
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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)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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