Sinployea solemi
Sinployea solemi 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, 1.5 mm wide and 860 μm high at 2.5 whorls, medium-coarsely ribbed, loosely coiled, very narrowly umbilicate and low spired (spire ~100 μm high). |
Distribution
New Zealand, Northland, Te Paki, and Cape Reinga area. Specimens known from Ngunguru and Matawaia, NW of Whangarei in Northland, Great Barrier Island in Hauraki Gulf, and Ohinau Island off E Coromandel Peninsula are potentially conspecific.
Habitat
Subtropical coastal mixed broadleaf forest.
The name
Named after Alan Solem for his work on Pacific snails.
Conservation
A rank of ‘Data Deficient’, qualifiers ‘Data Poor: Recognition, Trend, and Size’, is proposed here because of the variations in teleoconch ribbing and the species being potentially more widespread in coastal areas of eastern Northland. The proposed ranking changes the umbrella category from ‘Threatened’ to ‘Insufficient Information’.
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.
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