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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)
> Cavellia (Genus)
> serpentinula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Patula serpentinula Suter, 1891
Images: Cavellia serpentinula (Suter, 1891)
Syntype, collected White Horse Hill, Hooker Valley NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (M.125176). 2.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected White Horse Hill, Hooker Valley NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (M.125176). 2.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected White Horse Hill, Hooker Valley NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ (M.125176). 2.2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.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)
> Cavellia (Genus)
> serpentinula (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Patula serpentinula Suter, 1891
Details: Cavellia serpentinula (Suter, 1891)
Size/Grows to:
Width 2.8mm, Height 1.3mm
Distribution:
North and South Island
Type Data:
  • Hooker Valley, NNW of Mount Cook Village, NZ, (syntype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.308)
  • Suter, H. 1891 Descriptions of new species of New Zealand land and fresh-water shells., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 23 (p.87) 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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