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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMOCONCHINAE
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)
> Flammoconchinae (Subfamily)
> Calymna (Genus)
> montana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammocharopa Climo, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Flammocharopa montana (Suter, 1891)
=Patula bianca var. montana Suter, 1891 (original combination)
Images: Calymna montana (Suter, 1891)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Paralectotype, collected pre 1891, Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (MA73022). 3.2mm. © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected 15 May 1972, near power station, Waitaki Valley, Otago, NZ. 3.2mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: FLAMMOCONCHINAE
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)
> Flammoconchinae (Subfamily)
> Calymna (Genus)
> montana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammocharopa Climo, 1970
Synonymised Names:
=Flammocharopa montana (Suter, 1891)
=Patula bianca var. montana Suter, 1891 (original combination)
Details: Calymna montana (Suter, 1891)
Size/Grows to:
Width 3.2mm
Distribution:
South Island. Canterbury to central Otago
Type Data:
  • Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ, (lectotype of Patula bianca montana Suter, 1891, paralectotype of Patula bianca montana Suter, 1891)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.308)

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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