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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)
> lepida (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Realia turriculata lepida Suter, 1904
Images: Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
Collected Nov 2021, Mt. Holdsworth, Wairarapa, NZ. 7mm. © rights reserved
Syntype of Realia turriculata lepida, collected Mauriceville, N of Masterton, NZ (M.125401). 7.5mm. © 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)
> Liarea (Genus)
> lepida (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Realia turriculata lepida Suter, 1904
Details: Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
Size/Grows to:
Height 7.5mm, Width 4mm
Distribution:
North Island. Wellington to Levin, and through to Hawkes Bay
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Description:
Sculpture of closely spaced regular very oblique narrow membranous axials, becoming obsolete over the body whorl and absent from the base. Colour pale olive, with a hydropanous pattern of irregular pale buff maculations, of similar pattening in darker-brown. The base is uniformly olive to dark brown without markings or zones

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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.292)
  • Suter, H. 1904 New land-shells from New Zealand., Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 6 (p.157) 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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