Taguahelix elaiodes is a species of terrestrial snail in the family Punctidae.[1]
| Taguahelix elaiodes | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Taguahelix elaiodes (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Punctidae |
| Genus: | Taguahelix |
| Species: | T. elaiodes
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| Binomial name | |
| Taguahelix elaiodes (W. H. Webster, 1904)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Laoma (Phrixgnathus) elaiodes W. H. Webster, 1904 superseded combination) | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 2 mm.
(Original description) The turbinate shell is olive-green and shining. The shell contains 4½, rounded whorls. The protoconch consists of 1½ concentrically striate whorls. The remaining whorls are irregularly, radiately, finely striate and substriate with about 10 striations per millim., the substriations are variable in number and extent, both directed backwards. the whole shell is concentrically wave-striated. The suture is deep. The periphery is rounded. The umbilicus is narrow and pervious. The outer lip is simple, the margins slightly converging. The columella is vertical, reflexed above and slightly covers the umbilicus. The base of the shell is rounded [2]
Distribution
editThis species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs on North Island
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Taguahelix elaiodes (W. H. Webster, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=821418 on 2023-11-14
- ^ Webster, W.H. (1904). New Mollusca from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: 106-108
- Climo, F. M.; Goulstone, J. F. (1993). "Descriptions and Redescriptions of Landsnails (Mollusca: Punctidae) in the Genera Phrixgnathus and Taguahelix". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 30: 27–45. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906432. Wikidata Q58677441.
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch