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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> lepida (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Realia turriculata lepida Suter, 1904
Images: Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
Collected Nov 2021, Mt. Holdsworth, Wairarapa, NZ. 7mm
Syntype of Realia turriculata lepida, collected Mauriceville, N of Masterton, NZ (M.125401). 7.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> lepida (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Realia turriculata lepida Suter, 1904
Details: Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7.5mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
North Island. Wellington to Levin, and through to Hawkes Bay
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic, Sculpture of closely spaced regular very oblique narrow membranous axials, becoming obsolete over the body whorl and absent from the base. Colour pale olive, with a hydropanous pattern of irregular pale buff maculations, of rimilar pattening in darker-brown. The base is uniformly olive to dark brown without markings or zones
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.82)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1954 The Molluscan Land Operculate genus Liarea, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4(5) (p.292)
  • Suter, H. 1904 New land-shells from New Zealand., Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 6 (p.157) Original Description

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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