Taxonavigation

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

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]

References

• Mahlfeld, K., Brook, F.J.., Roscoe, D.J., Hitchmough, R.A. & Stringer, I.A.N. [Error for Ian Stringer] 2012: The conservation status of New Zealand terrestrial Gastropoda excluding Powelliphanta. New Zealand entomologist 35(2): 103–109. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2012.686313 . Reference page.  [see p. 106, 'Schizoglossa gigantea has now been found [living?] at four localities (G. Barker, personal communication)']

• 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]

Schizoglossa gigantea