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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ACHATINELLIDAE: TORNATELLIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Pupilloidei (Infraorder)
> Pupilloidea (Superfamily)
> Achatinellidae (Family)
> Tornatellidinae (Subfamily)
> Tornatellides (Genus)
> subperforatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ambrosiella Odhner, 1963
=Tornatellides (Aedituans) C.M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Ambrosiella) Odhner, 1963 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Tornatellides) Pilsbry, 1910 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Waimea) C.M. Cooke & Pilsbry, 1915 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Tornatellina subperforata Suter, 1909
Images: Tornatellides subperforatus (Suter, 1909)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 3.3mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Syntype, collected Whangarei Heads, NZ (M.125187). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
ACHATINELLIDAE: TORNATELLIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Pupilloidei (Infraorder)
> Pupilloidea (Superfamily)
> Achatinellidae (Family)
> Tornatellidinae (Subfamily)
> Tornatellides (Genus)
> subperforatus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Ambrosiella Odhner, 1963
=Tornatellides (Aedituans) C.M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1961 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Ambrosiella) Odhner, 1963 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Tornatellides) Pilsbry, 1910 accepted, alternate representation
=Tornatellides (Waimea) C.M. Cooke & Pilsbry, 1915 accepted, alternate representation
Synonymised Names:
=Tornatellina subperforata Suter, 1909
Details: Tornatellides subperforatus (Suter, 1909)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.5mm, Width 2.2mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland to East Cape
Type Data:
  • Whangarei Heads, NZ, (syntype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
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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.6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.302)

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