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Taxonomy
Family:
HYGROMIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Helicoidei (Infraorder)
> Helicoidea (Superfamily)
> Hygromiidae (Family)
> Hygromia (Genus)
> cinctella (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Fruticicola) cinctella Draparnaud, 1801
=Helix cinctella Draparnaud, 1801
Images: Hygromia cinctella (Draparnaud, 1801)
Collected 20 May 2015, Wellington, Brooklyn, Reuben Avenue, NZ (M.318161). 12mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 20 May 2015, Wellington, Brooklyn, Reuben Avenue, NZ (M.318161). 12mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected 20 May 2015, Wellington, Brooklyn, Reuben Avenue, NZ (M.318161). 12mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family:
HYGROMIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Helicoidei (Infraorder)
> Helicoidea (Superfamily)
> Hygromiidae (Family)
> Hygromia (Genus)
> cinctella (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Fruticicola) cinctella Draparnaud, 1801
=Helix cinctella Draparnaud, 1801
Details: Hygromia cinctella (Draparnaud, 1801)
Size/Grows to:
Width 12mm
Distribution:
Native to the Mediterranean region, and rapidly expanding in range in Europe. Also been recorded in the USA, and now NZ
Geographical Range:
L.N.
Notes:
Girled Snail, Land
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Spurgeon, A.M., Burch, K.W., Carson, K., Walton, K., Plaisted, J. Nov/2017 Notes on NZ Collected Species, Cookia, 29 (p.15)
  • Walton, K. 2016 Hygromia cinctella (Draparnaud, 1801) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hygromiidae): a new adventive land snail for New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology (p.1)

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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