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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)
> turriculata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Liarea turriculata turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Realia turriculata L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Images: Liarea turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Whangarei, Northland, NZ. 11mm
Whangarei, Northland, NZ
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Liarea (Genus)
> turriculata (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Omphalotropis (Realia) Gray, 1850
=Realia Gray, 1850
Synonymised Names:
=Liarea turriculata turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) accepted, alternate representation
=Realia turriculata L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Details: Liarea turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
Size/Grows to:
Height 11mm, Width 5mm
Distribution:
North Island. Northland, Auckland to Kaitaia
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic, Yellowish-brown with a broad spiral zone of dark brown on the upeer part of the base. After the wearing down of the axials the hydrophanous epidermal pattern develops on the spire
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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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