Quick Search
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> egea tessellata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Images: Liarea egea tessellata Powell, 1954
Dargaville, Northland, NZ. 9mm. © rights reserved
Whangarei, Northland, NZ. © rights reserved
Holotype, collected near Opononi, Hokianga Harbour, Northland, NZ (MA71203). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> egea tessellata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Details: Liarea egea tessellata Powell, 1954
Size/Grows to:
Height 10mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
Northland. Warkworth to Mangamuka Gorge
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Description:
Larger and taller than Liarea egea, with an extra half to one whorl, and has a more complicated hydrophanous pattern of zigzag and tesselations

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.286) Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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
Recently Viewed