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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)
> septentrionalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Lagochilus chiltoni septentrionalis Suter, 1907
Images: Cytora septentrionalis (Suter, 1907)
Holotype, collected Cowes Bay, Waiheke Island, NZ (M.125180). 4mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
N of Lake Rotorua, Kaharoa B track, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 3.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
N of Lake Rotorua, Kaharoa B track, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 3.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of Dave Roscoe
N of Lake Rotorua, Kaharoa B track, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 3.8mm. 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)
> septentrionalis (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Lagochilus chiltoni septentrionalis Suter, 1907
Details: Cytora septentrionalis (Suter, 1907)
Size/Grows to:
Height 4.0mm, Width 3.0mm
Distribution:
Northern North Island, from Doubtless Bay to Waipu Caves, Hunua Ranges, Coromandel Range and northern Kaimai Mamaku State Forest Park
Geographical Range:
L.N.
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.100)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.85)
  • Suter, H. 1907 Descriptions of new non-marine shells from New Zealand, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 7 (p.238) Original Description

*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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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