Non-marine molluscs of New Zealand include gastropods, such as land snails, and freshwater molluscs (or shellfish), such as freshwater mussels. Among the best known are the large native forest snails such as the Paryphanta (kauri snails) and Powelliphanta.
Systematic list
Freshwater gastropods
- Catapyrgus jamyi Verhaegen & Haase, 2021
- Catapyrgus sororius Haase, 2008
- Obtusopyrgus farri Verhaegen & Haase, 2021
- Opacuincola gretathunbergae Verhaegen & Haase, 2021
- Opacuincola lisannea Verhaegen & Haase, 2021
- Opacuincola mete Haase, 2008 with the subspecies O. mete kahurangi Verhaegen & Haase, 2021
Latiidae - only one genus Latia is endemic to the North Island
- Latia climoi Starobogatov, 1986 - type species
- Latia lateralis (Gould, 1852)
- Latia neritoides Gray, 1850
- Planorbis kahuica Finlay & Laws, 1931
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Land gastropods
- Omphalorissa purchasi (Pfeiffer, 1862)
- Placostylus ambagiosus Suter, 1906
- Cytora annectens (Powell, 1948)
- Cytora aranea (Powell, 1928)
- Cytora brooki Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora calva (Hutton, 1882)
- Cytora chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
- Cytora climoi Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora cytora (Gray, 1850)
- Cytora depressa N. Gardner, 1968
- Cytora fasciata (Suter, 1894)
- Cytora filicosta (Powell, 1948)
- Cytora gardneri Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora goulstonei Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora hazelwoodi Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
- Cytora hirsutissima (Powell, 1951)
- Cytora hispida N. Gardner, 1967
- Cytora houhora Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora jamiesoni Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora kahurangi Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora kakano Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora kamura Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora kerrana N. Gardner, 1968
- Cytora lignaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
- Cytora malleata Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora maui Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora mayhillae Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora minor Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora motu Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora pakotai Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora pallida (Hutton, 1883)
- Cytora pannosa (Hutton, 1882)
- Cytora paparoa Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora parrishi Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora rakiura Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora septentrionalis (Suter, 1907)
- Cytora solitaria (Powell, 1935)
- Cytora taipa Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora tawhiti Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora tepakiensis N. Gardner, 1967
- Cytora tokerau Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Cytora torquillum (Suter, 1894)
- Cytora tuarua Marshall & Barker, 2007
- Liarea aupouria Powell, 1954: Liarea aupouria aupouria and Liarea aupouria tara
- Liarea bicarinata (Suter, 1907)
- Liarea egea (Gray, 1850): Liarea egea egea and Liarea egea tessellata
- Liarea hochstetteri (Pfeiffer, 1861): Liarea hochstetteri alta, Liarea hochstetteri carinella and Liarea hochstetteri hochstetteri
- Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
- Liarea ornata Powell, 1954
- Liarea turriculata (Pfeiffer, 1855): Liarea turriculata partula, Liarea turriculata turriculata and Liarea turriculata waipoua
- Laoma leimonias (Gray, 1850)
- Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852)
- Phrixgnathus celia Hutton, 1883
- Paryphanta busbyi (Gray, 1840)
- Paryphanta watti Powell, 1946
- Powelliphanta spp. - all species of the genus Powelliphanta are endemic to New Zealand
- Rhytida spp. - all species of the genus Rhytida are endemic to New Zealand
- Rhytida greenwoodi (Gray, 1850)
- Schizoglossa spp. - all species of the genus Schizoglossa are endemic to New Zealand
- Wainuia spp. - all species of the genus Wainuia are endemic to New Zealand
- Allodiscus dimorphus (Reeve, 1852)
- Alsolemia longstaffae (Suter, 1913)
- Charopa coma (Gray, 1843)
- Fectola infecta (Reeve, 1852)
- Flammulina zebra (Le Guillou, 1842)
- Mitodon wairarapa (Suter, 1890)
- Mocella eta (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Neophenacohelix giveni (Cumber, 1961)
- Otoconcha dimidiata (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Phacussa helmsi (Hutton, 1882)
- Phenacohelix pilula (Reeve, 1852)
- Ranfurlya constanceae Suter, 1903
- Suteria ide (Gray, 1850)
- Therasia thaisa Hutton, 1883
- Cornu aspersum (O.F. Müller, 1774)
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Bivalvia
- Cucumerunio websteri (Simpson, 1902)
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See also
- List of marine molluscs of New Zealand
- List of non-marine molluscs of Australia
- Fauna of New Zealand
References
- ^ Verhaegen, Gerlien; Haase, Martin (18 January 2021). "All-inclusive descriptions of new freshwater snail taxa of the hyperdiverse family Tateidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from the South Island of New Zealand". European Journal of Taxonomy (731): 71–96. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.731.1205.
- ^ Bruce A. Marshall & Gary M. Barker (2007). "A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae)". Tuhinga 18: 49–113.
- ^ Rodrigo B. Salvador, Fred J. Brook, Lara D. Shepherd, Martyn Kennedy (2020). „Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Punctoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)“. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(2): 397-410.
- Spurgeon, Andrew. "NZ Mollusca". www.mollusca.co.nz. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
Further reading
- Hutton F. W. (1880). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft mollusks and Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands.
- Suter H. (1913). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca Wellington.
- Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
External links
- Invertebrates. Department of Conservation.
- New Zealand Mollusca website
- Hamish G. Spencer, Richard C. Willan, Bruce A. Marshall & Tara J. Murray. 2004. Checklist of the Recent Mollusca Described from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. - See also: Exclusive Economic Zone#New Zealand
- Sykes R. E. (1893) "On a new helicoid land-shell from New Zealand". Proceedings of the malacological society 1(3): 218. - Endodonta (Charopa) prestoni Murdoch.
- Land snail posters