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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
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)

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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