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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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> minuta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Klebyella minuta Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000
Images: Mocella minuta (Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000)
Holotype, collected 1964, off Random Spur Road, Kaiwara Valley, WSW of Cheviot, Canterbury, NZ (M.183703). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 1964, off Random Spur Road, Kaiwara Valley, WSW of Cheviot, Canterbury, NZ (M.183703). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Holotype, collected 1964, off Random Spur Road, Kaiwara Valley, WSW of Cheviot, Canterbury, NZ (M.183703). 1.8mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
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)
> Mocella (Genus)
> minuta (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Charopa (Mocella) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Klebyella minuta Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000
Details: Mocella minuta (Bandel, Gründel & Maxwell, 2000)
Distribution:
South Island
Type Data:
  • Off Random Spur Road, Kaiwara Valley, WSW of Cheviot, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Maxwell, P.A., Mannering, A.A. 2006 A Recent pulmonate (Charopidae) originally described as a Jurassic marine vetigastropod from New Zealand, Molluscan Research, 26(2) (p.105)
  • Bandel, K., Gründel, J., Maxwell, P.A. 2000 Gastropods from the upper Early Jurassic: early Middle Jurassic of Kaiwara Valley, North Canterbury, New Zealand, Freiberger Forschungshefte, (490) (p.80) 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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