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Liarea turriculata partula Powell, 1954Species Images
In bush litter, Great Barrier Island, NZ. 7-8mm
Liarea turriculata partula Powell, 1954
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Architaenioglossa (Order) > Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily) > Pupinidae (Family) > Liareinae (Subfamily) > Liarea (Genus) > turriculata partula (Species)
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Size/Grows to:
Height 8mm, Width 4.5mm
Distribution:
North Island, Warkworth. Also recorded from Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic, Colour pale brown with a dark reddish-brown spiral band at the top of the base, polished, a few distant weak membranous axials, but no hydrophanous pattern
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)

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