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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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> eta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix corniculum Reeve, 1852
=Helix eta L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Mocella cogitata Iredale, 1941
=Patula corniculum (Reeve, 1852)
=caputspinulae of authors
Images: Mocella eta (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Henga Scenic Reserve, north of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, NZ. 2.8mm. 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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> eta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix corniculum Reeve, 1852
=Helix eta L. Pfeiffer, 1853
=Mocella cogitata Iredale, 1941
=Patula corniculum (Reeve, 1852)
=caputspinulae of authors
Details: Mocella eta (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.8mm, Height 1.3mm
Distribution:
North, South and Chatham Islands
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.11)
  • 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.10)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.309)

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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