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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)
> bicarinata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Lagochilus bicarinatus Suter, 1907
Images: Liarea bicarinata (Suter, 1907)
Restricted to bush around Whangarei, up to Bay of Islands, NZ. 7mm. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> bicarinata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Lagochilus bicarinatus Suter, 1907
Details: Liarea bicarinata (Suter, 1907)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Northland, Whangarei
Type Data:
  • Coronation Reserve, Western Hills, Whangarei, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic, A small species, formerly classified as a Cytora
Description:
Shape turbinate, umbilicate and with the base bicarinate

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References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.82)
  • Mar/1974 Liarea bicarinata (Suter), Poirieria, 7(3) (p.43)
  • Suter, H. 1907 Descriptions of new non-marine shells from New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 7 (p.238) 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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