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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: ANCYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Ancylinae (Subfamily)
> Ferrissia (Genus)
> neozelanica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ancylus (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Gundlachia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Watsonula Mirolli, 1960
Synonymised Names:
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) neozelanica (Suter, 1905) accepted, alternate representation
=Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
Images: Ferrissia neozelanica (Suter, 1905)
Syntype, collected River Avon, Christchurch, NZ (M.125143). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PLANORBIDAE: ANCYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Hygrophila (Superorder)
> Lymnaeoidea (Superfamily)
> Planorbidae (Family)
> Ancylinae (Subfamily)
> Ferrissia (Genus)
> neozelanica (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ancylus (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Ferrissia) B. Walker, 1903
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Gundlachia (Kincaidilla) Hannibal, 1912
=Watsonula Mirolli, 1960
Synonymised Names:
=Ferrissia (Kincaidilla) neozelanica (Suter, 1905) accepted, alternate representation
=Gundlachia neozelanica Suter, 1905
Details: Ferrissia neozelanica (Suter, 1905)
Size/Grows to:
Length 3mm, Width 2mm, Height 0.75mm
Distribution:
South Island
Type Data:
  • River Avon, Hagley Park, Christchurch, NZ (Freshwater), (syntype)
Notes:
Freshwater Limpet, Freshwater, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.296)
  • Winterbourn, M.J. 1973 A guide to the Freshwater Mollusca of New Zealand, Tuatara, 20 (p.156)
  • Suter, H. 1904 The first-discovered New Zealand Gundlachia., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 37 (p.258) 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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