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Taxonomy
Family:
SPHAERIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Sphaeriida (Order)
> Sphaerioidea (Superfamily)
> Sphaeriidae (Family)
> Afropisidium (Genus)
> hodgkini (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pisidium (Afropisidium) Kuiper, 1962
Synonymised Names:
=Corneocyclas hodgkini Suter, 1905
Images: Afropisidium hodgkini (Suter, 1905)
Lectotype, collected Lake Waikaremoana, NZ (M.018471). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
SPHAERIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Bivalvia (Class)
> Autobranchia (Subclass)
> Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
> Euhetrodonta (Subterclass)
> Imparidentia (Superorder)
> Sphaeriida (Order)
> Sphaerioidea (Superfamily)
> Sphaeriidae (Family)
> Afropisidium (Genus)
> hodgkini (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Pisidium (Afropisidium) Kuiper, 1962
Synonymised Names:
=Corneocyclas hodgkini Suter, 1905
Details: Afropisidium hodgkini (Suter, 1905)
Size/Grows to:
Width 4.5mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Geographical Range:
Fw.N.S.
Notes:
Freshwater, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.422)
  • Suter, H. 1905 Report on the Mollusca collected by Messrs. Keith Lucas and G.L. Hodgkin in six lakes of New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 37 (p.246) 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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