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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
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)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Phacussa (Genus)
> lucetta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phacussa) Hutton, 1883
=Phelussa Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Patula) stokesi E.A. Smith, 1884
=Neophenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
=Neophenacohelix stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Patula lucetta Hutton, 1884
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Phenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Images: Phacussa lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Haywards Eastern Hills Scenic Reserve, Waiwhetu, Wellington, NZ. 7.0mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: THERASIINAE
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)
> Therasiinae (Subfamily)
> Phacussa (Genus)
> lucetta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Phacussa) Hutton, 1883
=Phelussa Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Helix (Patula) stokesi E.A. Smith, 1884
=Neophenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
=Neophenacohelix stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Patula lucetta Hutton, 1884
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) stokesi (E.A. Smith, 1884)
=Phenacohelix lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Details: Phacussa lucetta (Hutton, 1884)
Size/Grows to:
Width 7.5mm, Height 4.5mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Goulstone, J.F. 2001 A revision of the genus Phenacohelix Suter, 1892 (Mollusca: Pulmonata) with descriptions of four new species and reassignment of Thalassohelix ziczag (Gould, 1846), Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 38 (p.57)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.323)

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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