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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)
> Cytora (Genus)
> rakiura (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Cytora sp. 4 (M.88987)
Images: Cytora rakiura B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Holotype, collected 22 Jan 1955, E of Port Pegasus, Island in Seal Creek, NZ (M.030684). 2mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Tin Range, Stewart Island, NZ. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Tin Range, Stewart Island, NZ. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Tin Range, Stewart Island, NZ. 1.5mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Cytora (Genus)
> rakiura (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Cytora sp. 4 (M.88987)
Details: Cytora rakiura B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.0mm
Distribution:
Stewart Island. East of Port Pegasus
Type Data:
  • Island in Seal Creek, E of Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Barker, G.M. 2007 A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1987 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae), Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 18 (p.100) 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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