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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 waipoua (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Images: Liarea turriculata waipoua Powell, 1954
Northland west coast, NZ. 9mm. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected Jan 1950, Waipoua Kauri Forest, Northland, NZ (MA71206). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> turriculata waipoua (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Details: Liarea turriculata waipoua Powell, 1954
Size/Grows to:
Height 10mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Waipoua Kauri Forest to Hokianga
Type Data:
  • Waipoua Forest, NW of Dargaville, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Description:
Colour uniformly brown, without a hydrophanous pattern, but with a spiral band of dark brown on the upper part of the base. Sculpture of closely spaced narrow membranous axials bearing short bristles

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.291) 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