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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)
> torquillum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) torquillum (Suter, 1894)
=Lagochilus torquillum Suter, 1894
Images: Cytora torquillum (Suter, 1894)
Syntype of Lagochilus torquillum Suter, 1894, collected Howick, Auckland, NZ (M.125191). 2.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.8mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Great Mercury Island, Bay of Plenty, NZ. 1.8mm. 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)
> torquillum (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Japonia (Cytora) torquillum (Suter, 1894)
=Lagochilus torquillum Suter, 1894
Details: Cytora torquillum (Suter, 1894)
Size/Grows to:
Height 2.5mm, Width 1.75mm
Distribution:
Northern North Island, from northwestern Northland to west of Waimarama, south of Hastings
Geographical Range:
L.N.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic
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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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