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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: PEDIPEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Pedipedinae (Subfamily)
> Microtralia (Genus)
> insularis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Rangitotoa Powell, 1933
Synonymised Names:
=Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933
=Microtralia occidentalis Climo, 1982
Images: Microtralia insularis (Powell, 1933)
Rangitoto Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ. 2.5mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ELLOBIIDAE: PEDIPEDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Ellobiida (Order)
> Ellobioidea (Superfamily)
> Ellobiidae (Family)
> Pedipedinae (Subfamily)
> Microtralia (Genus)
> insularis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Rangitotoa Powell, 1933
Synonymised Names:
=Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933
=Microtralia occidentalis Climo, 1982
Details: Microtralia insularis (Powell, 1933)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.7mm, Width 2mm
Distribution:
Auckland region, Rangitoto Island, Manukau and Waitemata Harbours, from 0m
Type Data:
  • Rangitoto Island, Hauraki Gulf, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Living near high tide level
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References and Publications
  • de Frias Martins, A.M. 1996 Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), Malacologia, 37(2) (p.236)
  • Walsby, J.R., Morton, J.E. 1982 Chitons, Limpets & Topshells & Pulmonates (Amphineura, Archaeogastropoda & Pulmonata), Marine Molluscs, University of Auckland, Leigh Marine Laboratory, 1 (p.75)
  • Climo, F.M. 1982 The systematic status of Auricula (Alexia) meridionalis Brazier, 1877 and Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933 (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Ellobiidae) in Australasia, National Museum of New Zealand Records, 2 (p.44)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.295)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1934 The High-Tidal Mollusca of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; with descriptions of a new Genus and two new Species, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 63 (p.149) Original Description

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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