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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)
> ornata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Images: Liarea ornata Powell, 1954
Bush around Matakana/Leigh area, Northland, NZ. 7-8mm
Holotype, collected S of Wellsford, Auckland, NZ (MA71202). © 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)
> ornata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Details: Liarea ornata Powell, 1954
Size/Grows to:
Height 8.5mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. North of Auckland
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic, Colour dark reddish-brown with a conspicuous hydrophanous pattern in pale buff, in the form of elaborate chevrons. The base uniformly dark brown, the umbilical cavity and outer lip flange pale brown
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.83)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1954 The Molluscan Land Operculate genus Liarea, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4(5) (p.282)

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

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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