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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Neophenacohelix (Genus)
> perplexa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) perplexa R. Murdoch, 1897
=Phenacohelix perplexa (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Images: Neophenacohelix perplexa (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Collected E of Wanganui, NZ (M.125175). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected E of Wanganui, NZ (M.125175). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected E of Wanganui, NZ (M.125175). 7mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Neophenacohelix (Genus)
> perplexa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
=Phenacohelix (Neophenacohelix) Cumber, 1961
Synonymised Names:
=Flammulina (Phenacohelix) perplexa R. Murdoch, 1897
=Phenacohelix perplexa (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Details: Neophenacohelix perplexa (R. Murdoch, 1897)
Size/Grows to:
Width 8mm, Height 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Wanganui
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.63)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.323)
  • Murdoch, R. 1897 Descriptions of new species of Endodonta and Flammulina from New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2 (p.161) 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