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  • Family: Pupinidae

  • Cytora annectens (Powell, 1948)
    Height 4.3mm, Width 3.4mm
    Land, Endemic
    Three Kings Isands
    L.E.
  • Cytora aranea (Powell, 1928)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 1.5mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora brooki Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 5.6mm, Width 5.6mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island. SE of Cape Reinga, Far North
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora calva (Hutton, 1883)
    Height 3.25mm, Width 2.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    South Island
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
    Height 3.0mm, Width 2.25mm
    Land, Endemic
    South Island
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora climoi Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.7mm
    Land, Endemic
    South Island. NW of Collingwood
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora cytora (Gray, 1850)
    Height 2.6mm, Width 2.25mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora depressa Gardner, 1968
    Width 6.7mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northwestern South Island, Nelson region
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora fasciata (Suter, 1894)
    Height 2.7mm, Width 2.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, from Northland and west coast between Raglan and Mt. Taranaki
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora filicosta (Powell, 1948)
    Height 4.2mm, Width 2.9mm
    Land, Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
    L.E.
  • Cytora gardneri Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    Far North
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora goulstonei Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 3.7mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northland. Kaikohe to Kaitaia
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora hazelwoodi Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.03mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northeastern North Island. Coromandel Range and Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
    Height 2.4mm, Width 2.3mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northern North Island, from Wellsford to Waikato and Bay of Plenty
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora hirsutissima (Powell, 1951)
    Height 7.0mm, Width 7.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
    L.E.
  • Cytora hispida Gardner, 1967
    Height 3.6mm, Width 1.8mm
    Land, Endemic, Litter-dwelling detritovore, occurring mainly in scrub on bush fringes
    North Island, northern Aupouri Peninsula
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora houhora Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 3.8mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island. Mount Camel, Houhora
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora jamiesoni Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 3.75mm, Width 3.75mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northwestern South Island, from Cape Farewell to Karamea
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora kahurangi Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 4.1mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northwest South Island. E of Cape Farewell
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora kakano Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 3.95mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northwestern South Island. NE of Westport
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora kamura Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Width 5.0mm, Height 4.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    North and South Island
    L.N.S.E.
  • Cytora kerrana Gardner, 1968
    Height 4.2mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, northern Aupouri Peninsula
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora lignaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
    Height 6.5mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, northern Aupouri Peninsula
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora malleata Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 6.45mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, eastern Northland, from Bay of Islands south to Whangarei
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora maui Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.9mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, from Northland to Wanganui and Eketahuna
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora mayhillae Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 4.35mm
    Land, Endemic
    Southwest South Island, from Lake Ianthe to Preservation Inlet
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora minor Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 1.5mm
    Land, Endemic
    Western central North Island, between Raglan and Awakino
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora motu Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.8mm
    Land, Endemic
    Poor Knights Islands
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora pakotai Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.2mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, N of Dargaville
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora pallida (Hutton, 1883)
    Height 6.4mm, Width 4.2mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northern North Island, from Doubtless Bay to Auckland
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora pannosa (Hutton, 1883)
    Height 4.0mm, Width 3.25mm
    Land, Endemic
    Western South Island, from Cape Farewell to Haast
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora paparoa Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 3.2mm
    Land, Endemic
    South Island. South of Westport
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora parrishi Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.65mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island. Northland, from Karikari Peninsula and Doubtless Bay
    L.E.
  • Cytora rakiura Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    Stewart Island. East of Port Pegasus
    L.S.E.
  • Cytora septentrionalis (Suter, 1907)
    Height 4.0mm, Width 3.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northern North Island, from Doubtless Bay to Waipu Caves, Hunua Ranges, Coromandel Range and northern Kaimai Mamaku State Forest Park
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora solitaria (Powell, 1935)
    Height 4.0mm, Width 4.2mm
    Land, Endemic
    Three Kings Islands
    L.E.
  • Cytora taipa Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 1.8mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island. E side of Taipa River estuary, NE of Kaitaia
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora tawhiti Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 1.8mm
    Land, Endemic
    Auckland Islands
    L.E.
  • Cytora tepakiensis Gardner, 1967
    Height 3.75mm, Width 2.0mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, northern Aupouri Peninsula
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora tokerau Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.6mm
    Land, Endemic
    North Island, Northland, Hunua Ranges, Great Barrier Island, Coromandel Peninsula, Mercury Islands
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora torquillum (Suter, 1894)
    Height 2.5mm, Width 1.75mm
    Land, Endemic
    Northern North Island, from northwestern Northland to west of Waimarama, south of Hastings
    L.N.E.
  • Cytora tuarua Marshall & Barker, 2007
    Height 2.85mm
    Land, Endemic
    South Island and Stewart Island
    L.S.E.
  • Liarea aupouria Powell, 1954
    Height 13mm, Width 6mm
    Land, Endemic, Hydrophanous colour pattern, ranging from simple broad reddish-brown axial streaks to complicated zigzags and chevrons
    Far North, Northland
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea aupouria tara Powell, 1954
    Height 10mm, Width 4mm
    Land, Endemic, Smaller and more slender form of aupouria. Hydrophanous colour pattern, with diffused axial streaks in dark olive-brown on a buff ground, and a single spiral band of dark brown around the upper base
    Far North, Northland
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea bicarinata (Suter, 1907)
    Height 7mm, Width 5mm
    Land, Endemic, A small species, formerly classified as a Cytora. Shape turbinate, umbilicate and with the base bicarinate
    Northland, Whangarei
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea egea (Gray, 1850)
    Height 7mm, Width 4.5mm
    Land, Endemic, Colour pattern consisting of a broad spiral brown band on the upper base, and a hydrophanous pattern of irregular axial streaks on the spire
    North Island. Waikato and Rotorua, northward to Wellsford. Little Barrier and Chickens Islands
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea egea tessellata Powell, 1954
    Height 10mm, Width 5mm
    Land, Endemic, Larger and taller than egea, with an extra half to one whorl, and has a more complicated hydrophanous pattern of zigzag and tesselations
    Northland. Warkworth to Mangamuka Gorge
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea hochstetteri (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
    Height 10mm, Width 6mm
    Land, Endemic, Has a broad flange surrounding the peristome. Sculptured with closely spaced narrow axial plications, uniformly dark horny or sepia, and never with a colour pattern or hydrophanous pattern
    Northland. Awanui to Hokianga, Bay of Islands and Wellsford
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea hochstetteri alta Powell, 1954
    Height 13mm, Width 6mm
    Land, Endemic, Larger than typical hochstetteri and has a relatively much taller spire. The peristome is broadly expanded as in the ecotype from Herekino and the other western perhumid areas
    Whangarei, Northland
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea hochstetteri carinella (L. Pfeiffer, 1861)
    Height 8mm, Width 5.5mm
    Land, Endemic, Constantly smaller and more slender spired than the typical species. Colour uniformly light brown, without any hydrophanous markings
    North Island. Waitakere Range, Auckland, Kawau Island to Awakino Gorge
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea lepida (Suter, 1904)
    Height 7.5mm, Width 4mm
    Land, Endemic, Sculpture of closely spaced regular very oblique narrow membranous axials, becoming obsolete over the body whorl and absent from the base. Colour pale olive, with a hydropanous pattern of irregular pale buff maculations, of rimilar pattening in darker-brown. The base is uniformly olive to dark brown without markings or zones
    North Island. Wellington to Levin, and through to Hawkes Bay
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea ornata Powell, 1954
    Height 8.5mm, Width 5mm
    Land, Endemic, Colour dark reddish-brown with a conspicuous hydrophanous pattern in pale buff, in the form of elaborate chevrons. The base uniformly dark brown, the umbilical cavity and outer lip flange pale brown
    North Island. North of Auckland
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea turriculata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
    Height 11mm, Width 5mm
    Land, Endemic, Yellowish-brown with a broad spiral zone of dark brown on the upeer part of the base. After the wearing down of the axials the hydrophanous epidermal pattern develops on the spire
    North Island. Northland, Auckland to Kaitaia
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea turriculata partula Powell, 1954
    Height 8mm, Width 4.5mm
    Land, Endemic, Colour pale brown with a dark reddish-brown spiral band at the top of the base, polished, a few distant weak membranous axials, but no hydrophanous pattern
    North Island, Warkworth. Also recorded from Great Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf
    L.N.E.
  • Liarea turriculata waipoua Powell, 1954
    Height 10mm, Width 5mm
    Land, Endemic, Colour uniformly brown, without a hydrophanous pattern, but with a spiral band of dark brown on the upper part of the base. Sculpture of closely spaced narrow membranous axials bearing short bristles
    North Island. Waipoua Kauri Forest to Hokianga
    L.N.E.
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