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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Allodiscus (Genus)
> capax (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Allodiscus) Pilsbry, 1892
=Gerontia (Allodiscus) Pilsbry, 1892
=Psyra Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Allodiscus cassandra Suter, 1913
Images: Allodiscus capax Brook, Brook & Marshall, 2026
Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ. 12.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ. 12.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ. 12.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CHAROPIDAE: PHENACOHELICINAE
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)
> Phenacohelicinae (Subfamily)
> Allodiscus (Genus)
> capax (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Flammulina (Allodiscus) Pilsbry, 1892
=Gerontia (Allodiscus) Pilsbry, 1892
=Psyra Hutton, 1883
Synonymised Names:
=Allodiscus cassandra Suter, 1913
Details: Allodiscus capax Brook, Brook & Marshall, 2026
Size/Grows to:
Width 16mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands; Great Island, South West Island, West Island, North East Island
Type Data:
  • Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Brook, E.F., Marshall, B.A. 2026 Review of some New Zealand land snail taxa previously attributed to Allodiscus Pilsbry, 1892 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Punctoidea), and a new species name for Allodiscus cassandra of authors not Hutton, 1883, Molluscan Research (p.4) Original Description
  • Marshall, B.A., Barker, G.M. 2008 A revision of the New Zealand land snails referred to Allodiscus Pilsbry, 1892 and Pseudallodiscus Climo, 1971, with the introduction of three new genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Charopidae), Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 19 (p.64)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.318)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1948 Land Mollusca of the Three Kings Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 3 (p.275)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1883 Notes on some New Zealand land shells, New Zealand Journal of Science, 1(10) (p.476)

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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