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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Phrixgnathus (Genus)
> paralaomiformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Laoma (Phrixgnathus) Hutton, 1882
Synonymised Names:
=Laoma (Phrixgnathus) paralaomiformis Climo, 1971
Images: Phrixgnathus paralaomiformis (Climo, 1971)
Collected Jan 1964, Poor Knights, Northland, NZ (M.023248). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Jan 1964, Poor Knights, Northland, NZ (M.023248). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Jan 1964, Poor Knights, Northland, NZ (M.023248). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Phrixgnathus (Genus)
> paralaomiformis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Laoma (Phrixgnathus) Hutton, 1882
Synonymised Names:
=Laoma (Phrixgnathus) paralaomiformis Climo, 1971
Details: Phrixgnathus paralaomiformis (Climo, 1971)
Size/Grows to:
Width 3mm
Distribution:
Poor Knights Islands
Type Data:
  • Poor Knights Islands, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
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.331)
  • Climo, F.M. 1971 Additions to the land snail fauna of the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand., Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1(1) (p.67) 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