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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: ROTADISCINAE
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)
> Rotadiscinae (Subfamily)
> Huonodon (Genus)
> hectori (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mylesia Climo, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Helix hectori Suter, 1890
=Huonodon pseutes (Iredale, 1913)
=Ptychodon amandus Iredale, 1913
=Ptychodon fiordlandica Dell, 1955
=Ptychodon hunuaensis Suter, 1894
=Ptychodon magdalenae Ancey, 1891
=Ptychodon pseutes Iredale, 1913
Images: Huonodon hectori (Suter, 1890)
Lake Thompson Hut, Wapiti River, Fiordland, NZ. 1.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Lake Thompson Hut, Wapiti River, Fiordland, NZ. 1.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Lake Thompson Hut, Wapiti River, Fiordland, NZ. 1.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Lectotype of Helix hectori Suter, 1890, collected Hastwell, N of Masterton, NZ (M.125117). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Lectotype of Helix hectori Suter, 1890, collected Hastwell, N of Masterton, NZ (M.125117). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Lectotype of Helix hectori Suter, 1890, collected Hastwell, N of Masterton, NZ (M.125117). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: ROTADISCINAE
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)
> Rotadiscinae (Subfamily)
> Huonodon (Genus)
> hectori (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Mylesia Climo, 1978
Synonymised Names:
=Helix hectori Suter, 1890
=Huonodon pseutes (Iredale, 1913)
=Ptychodon amandus Iredale, 1913
=Ptychodon fiordlandica Dell, 1955
=Ptychodon hunuaensis Suter, 1894
=Ptychodon magdalenae Ancey, 1891
=Ptychodon pseutes Iredale, 1913
Details: Huonodon hectori (Suter, 1890)
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.25mm, Height 1.2mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Type Data:
  • Hastwell, N of Masterton, NZ, (lectotype of Helix hectori Suter, 1890)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Goulstone, J.F., Mayhill, P.C., Parrish, G.R. 1993 An Illustrated Guide to the Land Mollusca of the Te Paki ecological region, Northland, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 34 (p.10)
  • Climo, F.M. 1981 Classification of the New Zealand Arionacea (Mollusca: Pulmonata) 8: Notes on some charopid species with descriptions of new taxa (Charopidae), National Museum of New Zealand Records, 2(3) (p.14)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.305)
  • 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.185)
  • Suter, H. 1890 Descriptions of new species of New Zealand land and fresh-water shells., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 22 (p.222) 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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