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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)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
=Lagochilus hedleyi Suter, 1894
Images: Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
Collected Awhitu Bush, Auckland, NZ. 2.3mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Awhitu Bush, Auckland, NZ. 2.3mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Collected Awhitu Bush, Auckland, NZ. 2.3mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
Peachgrove Bay, Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Peachgrove Bay, Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Peachgrove Bay, Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.6mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
PUPINIDAE: LIAREINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Architaenioglossa (Order)
> Cyclophoroidea (Superfamily)
> Pupinidae (Family)
> Liareinae (Subfamily)
> Cytora (Genus)
> hedleyi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
=Lagochilus hedleyi Suter, 1894
Details: Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.4mm, Width 2.3mm
Distribution:
Northern North Island, from Wellsford to Waikato and Bay of Plenty
Notes:
Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
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.71)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.84)
  • Suter, H. 1894 Additions and emendations to the reference list of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of New Zealand, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 8 (p.484) 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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