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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)
> turriculata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Liarea turriculata turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Realia turriculata L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Images: Liarea turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Whangarei, Northland, NZ. 11mm. © rights reserved
Whangarei, Northland, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> turriculata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Liarea turriculata turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Realia turriculata L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Details: Liarea turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Size/Grows to:
Height 11mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland, Auckland to Kaitaia
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Description:
Yellowish-brown with a broad spiral zone of dark brown on the upper part of the base. After the wearing down of the axials the hydrophanous epidermal pattern develops on the spire

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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.81)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1954 The Molluscan Land Operculate genus Liarea, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4(5) (p.288)
  • Pfeiffer, L. 1855 A monograph of the genera Realia and Hydrocena, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 22 (p.304) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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