Several other species bear his name in their scientific names, including the Takahe, Porphyrio hochstetteri, and Powelliphanta hochstetteri, a species (with five subspecies) of New Zealand's giant carnivorous land snails.
He described it according to the shell only, which geologist German Ferdinand von Hochstetter had brought from the New Zealand.
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This species is endemic to the Marlborough and Nelson provinces of the South Island of New Zealand.