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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)
> Fectola (Genus)
> paytoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) paytoni Climo, 1970
Images: Fectola paytoni (Climo, 1970)
Holotype, collected 21 Dec 1967, Waiatoto Valley, SW of Haast, NZ (M.023253). ~2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 21 Dec 1967, Waiatoto Valley, SW of Haast, NZ (M.023253). ~2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 21 Dec 1967, Waiatoto Valley, SW of Haast, NZ (M.023253). ~2.7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Feb 1986, WNW of Borland Lodge, SSW of Manapouri, Fiordland, NZ. 2.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Feb 1986, WNW of Borland Lodge, SSW of Manapouri, Fiordland, NZ. 2.7mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Feb 1986, WNW of Borland Lodge, SSW of Manapouri, Fiordland, NZ. 2.7mm. 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)
> Fectola (Genus)
> paytoni (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Charopa (Ptychodon) paytoni Climo, 1970
Details: Fectola paytoni (Climo, 1970)
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.7mm
Distribution:
South Island. South Westland
Geographical Range:
L.S.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.307)
  • Climo, F.M. 1978 Classification of the New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata): A review of the New Zealand Charopine snails with lamellate apertures, National Museum of New Zealand Records, 1(11) (p.187)
  • Climo, F.M. 1970 Two new species of punctid land snail from the South Island, New Zealand, Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 12 (p.209) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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