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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Laoma (Genus)
> ciliata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bulimus (Laoma) Gray, 1850
Images: Laoma ciliata Suter, 1894
Syntype, collected bush on 'Rusthall' farm, No. 2 Line, E of Wanganui, NZ (M.086274). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected bush on 'Rusthall' farm, No. 2 Line, E of Wanganui, NZ (M.086274). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Syntype, collected bush on 'Rusthall' farm, No. 2 Line, E of Wanganui, NZ (M.086274). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Pohangina, Manawatu, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Pohangina, Manawatu, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Pohangina, Manawatu, NZ. 2.1mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUNCTIDAE: LAOMINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> [unassigned] Helicina (Infraorder)
> Punctoidea (Superfamily)
> Punctidae (Family)
> Laominae (Subfamily)
> Laoma (Genus)
> ciliata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bulimus (Laoma) Gray, 1850
Details: Laoma ciliata Suter, 1894
Size/Grows to:
Width 1.75mm, Height 2mm
Distribution:
North Island. Hawke's Bay and Bay of Plenty to Auckland
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.324)
  • Suter, H. 1894 Further contributions to the knowledge of the molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of eight new species, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 26 (p.136) Original Description

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
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