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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
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)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Discocharopa (Genus)
> aperta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Discocharopa) Iredale, 1913
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Discocharopa) exquisita Iredale, 1913
=Charopa (Discocharopa) microdiscus van Benthem Jutting, 1951
=Charopa exquisita Iredale, 1913
=Discocharopa exquisita (Iredale, 1913)
=Discocharopa microdiscus (van Benthem Jutting, 1951)
=Endodonta (Charopa) planorbulina Tate, 1896
=Endodonta concinna Hedley, 1901
=Patula aperta Möllendorff, 1888
Images: Discocharopa aperta (Möllendorff, 1888)
Lectotype of Discocharopa exquisita, collected 3/10/1908, crater slopes NE of Blue Lake, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ. 1.3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Lectotype of Discocharopa exquisita, collected 3/10/1908, crater slopes NE of Blue Lake, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ. 1.3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Lectotype of Discocharopa exquisita, collected 3/10/1908, crater slopes NE of Blue Lake, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands, NZ. 1.3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected May 2011, Moumoukai summit, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected May 2011, Moumoukai summit, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected May 2011, Moumoukai summit, Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: CHAROPINAE
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)
> Charopinae (Subfamily)
> Discocharopa (Genus)
> aperta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Discocharopa) Iredale, 1913
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Discocharopa) exquisita Iredale, 1913
=Charopa (Discocharopa) microdiscus van Benthem Jutting, 1951
=Charopa exquisita Iredale, 1913
=Discocharopa exquisita (Iredale, 1913)
=Discocharopa microdiscus (van Benthem Jutting, 1951)
=Endodonta (Charopa) planorbulina Tate, 1896
=Endodonta concinna Hedley, 1901
=Patula aperta Möllendorff, 1888
Details: Discocharopa aperta (Möllendorff, 1888)
Distribution:
Kermadec Islands
Geographical Range:
L.
Notes:
Land
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Solem, A. 1982 Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography, Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra), Chicago, Illinois, Field Museum of Natural History, 2 (p.76)
  • Iredale, T. 1913 The land Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 10(6) (p.379)

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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