Schizoglossa gigantea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhytidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Tectipleura Subcohors: Panpulmonata Superordo: Eupulmonata Ordo: Stylommatophora Subordo: Helicina Infraordo: Rhytidoidei Superfamilia: Rhytidoidea

Familia: Rhytididae
Subfamilia: Rhytidinae
Genus: Schizoglossa
Species: Schizoglossa gigantea

Name

• Schizoglossa gigantea Powell, 1930
  • Authority for current placement: original
  • Current status: valid species
  • Gender: changeable (-us, -um, -a)
  • Original combination(s)/spelling(s): Schizoglossa gigantea
  • Original genus: Schizoglossa Hedley, 1893
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated and presumably unique
    • Description: shell
    • Repository: AMNZ, ex 'author's collection' AM72133
  • Type locality: 'Subfossil with moa bones, cave near Tahora, Gisborne District'
  • ZooBank

References

Primary references

• Powell, A.W.B. 1930: The Paryphantidae of New Zealand: their hypothetical ancestry, with descriptions of new species and a new genus. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 1(1): 17-56, plates 1-7. Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 54, and Plate 1, Figs. 5 and 6]

Additional references

• Poortman, P. 1997: The diminishing Schizoglossa. Poirieria 20: 24–25. Reference page. 
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979. New Zealand Mollusca: marine, land and freshwater shells. William Collins Publishers Ltd: Auckland. ISBN 0-00-216906-1 Reference page.  [see p. 347, and Plate 64:15]