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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)
> kamura (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Cytora lignaria of authors
=Cytora sp. 1 (M.122176)
Images: Cytora kamura B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Holotype, collected 11 Nov 1961, Motuara Island, Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ (M.179672). 3.5mm. © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 4.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 4.4mm. Reproduced courtesy of iNaturalist.nz ©openlabnz (D.J.Roscoe)
Hayward's Reserve, Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ. 4.4mm. 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)
> kamura (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Japonia (Cytora) Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897
=Murdochia Powell, 1941
Synonymised Names:
=Cytora lignaria of authors
=Cytora sp. 1 (M.122176)
Details: Cytora kamura B.A. Marshall & Barker, 2007
Size/Grows to:
Width 5.0mm, Height 4.0mm
Distribution:
Lower North and Marlborough, upper South Island
Type Data:
  • Motuara Island, Queen Charlotte Sound, NZ, (holotype, paratype)
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.81) Original Description
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.84)

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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