Climocella intermedia
| Climocella intermedia | |
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| Holotype from the Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea |
| Family: | Charopidae |
| Genus: | Climocella |
| Species: | C. intermedia
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| Binomial name | |
| Climocella intermedia Goulstone, 1997
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Climocella intermedia is a species of land snail belonging to the family Charopidae.[1] Endemic to New Zealand, the species is found in association with fallen logs in forests in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the Gisborne District.
Description
C. intermedia has a shell that measures up to 2.7 mm (0.11 in) by 1.3 mm (0.051 in), with a subdiscoidal shell of 4.25 whorls that increase in size. The shell's spire is flat or slightly sunken, and the protoconch has 1.75 whorls with the first whorl having eight spiral lirae. The shells are coloured with narrow amber-brown radial bands. It can be differentiated from C. akarana due to the shells always having a flat or depressed spite, straight widely spaced axials found on the protoconch, and differences in terminal genitalia.[2]
Taxonomy
The species was first described by James Frederick Goulstone in 1996, who named the species due to its appearance being half-way between that of C. akarana and C. waenga.[2] Pauline C. Mayhill collected the holotype of the species from Papatea Bay in the Ōpōtiki District, New Zealand on 1 September 1992, which is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[3][4]
Distribution and habitat
C. intermedia is endemic to New Zealand,[5] found in forests in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the northern Gisborne District, typically in friable soil underneath fallen logs, or in bark crevices.[2][6][7]
Gallery
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Underside view of holotype
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Side view of holotype
References
- ^ Climocella intermedia Goulstone, 1997. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 November 2025.
- ^ a b c Goulstone, J. F. (1996). "Seven New Species of Climocella (Gastropoda: Punctoidea: Charopidae) from Northern New Zealand". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 33: 173–194. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906463. Wikidata Q58677504.
- ^ Blom, Wilma M. (2025). "Annotated Catalogue of Fossil and Extant Molluscan Types in the Auckland War Memorial Museum". Bulletin of the Auckland Museum. 22. doi:10.32912/BULLETIN/22. ISSN 1176-3213. OCLC 1550165130. Wikidata Q135397912.
- ^ "Climocella intermedia". Collections Online. Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "Details: Climocella intermedia Goulstone, 1997". NZ Mollusca. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ Barker, Gary M.; Mayhill, Pauline C. (March 1999). "Patterns of diversity and habitat relationships in terrestrial mollusc communities of the Pukeamaru Ecological District, northeastern New Zealand". Journal of Biogeography. 26 (2): 215–238. doi:10.1046/J.1365-2699.1999.00267.X. ISSN 0305-0270. Wikidata Q115431956.
- ^ "land snail, Climocella intermedia Goulstone, 1997". Collections Online. Te Papa. Retrieved 20 November 2025.