Sinployea fiordlandica
Sinployea fiordlandica was named in 2025 by Frank Climo, Karin Mahlfeld and David Roscoe, in their revision of the genus Sinployea. It belongs to the Charopidae: mostly tiny, finely ribbed snails of forest litter, and the largest family of New Zealand land snails.
| Family | Charopidae |
| Authority | Climo, Mahlfeld & Roscoe, 2025 |
| Threat status | Proposed in 2025, see Conservation below |
| Shell | Shell small, thin, and fragile, 2.1 mm wide and 950 μm high at three whorls, moderately finely ribbed, moderately tightly coiled, narrowly umbilicate and low spired. |
Distribution
South Island, Fiordland, Dusky and Doubtful Sounds.
Habitat
Temperate montane beech (Nothofagus Blume) forest to subalpine shrublands?
The name
After Fiordland, southwestern South Island.
Conservation
Only one sample was taken from Mount Troup in 1985, and since then no further survey has taken place in the area. Twenty-one samples are known from the Doubtful
Sources
- Described in: Mahlfeld, K., Climo, F. & Roscoe, D. (2025). Systematics, conservation status, and biogeography of 16 new species of Sinployea Solem, 1983 (Gastropoda: Charopidae) from New Zealand. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(1). Publication details
- Treatment on Plazi (CC0). Distribution, habitat, name and conservation text are quoted from it.
This record was compiled from published, public data. A full factsheet for this species has not been written yet.