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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)
> taipa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Images: Cytora taipa B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Holotype, collected 9 Oct 1976, hillside S of quarry, E side of Taipa River estuary, NE of Kaitaia, NZ (M.179677). 1.8mm. © 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)
> Cytora (Genus)
> taipa (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Details: Cytora taipa B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Size/Grows to:
Height 1.8mm
Distribution:
North Island. E side of Taipa River estuary to Doubtless Bay, NE of Kaitaia
Type Data:
  • E side Taipa River estuary, 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.103) 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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