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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)
> Cytora (Genus)
> chiltoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
=Lagochilus chiltoni Suter, 1896
Images: Cytora chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
Holotype of Lagochilus chiltoni, collected Fern Flat, Buller River Valley, WNW of Murchison, NZ (M.125086). 3mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Collected Apr 2015, Heaphy Track, Westland, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Apr 2015, Heaphy Track, Westland, NZ. 2.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Cytora (Genus)
> chiltoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
=Lagochilus chiltoni Suter, 1896
Details: Cytora chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
Size/Grows to:
Height 3.0mm, Width 2.25mm
Distribution:
South Island
Type Data:
  • Fern Flat, Buller River, W of Murchison, NZ, (holotype of Lagochilus chiltoni Suter, 1896)
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Barker, G.M. 2007 A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1987 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae), Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 18 (p.60)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.85)
  • Suter, H. 1896 Descriptions of some new land Mollusca from New Zealand and Macquarie Island, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2 (p.33) 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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