Liarea turriculata turriculata

Taxobox
name = "Liarea turriculata turriculata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Liareidae
genus = "Liarea"
species = "L. turriculata"
subspecies = "L. turriculata turriculata"
trinomial = "Liarea turriculata turriculata"
trinomial_authority = (Pfeiffer, L., 1855)
synonyms = "Realia turriculata" Pfeiffer, L., 1855

"Liarea turriculata turriculata" is a subspecies of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand, found in the North Island north of Auckland.

hell description

The shell is tall and slender, the spire two to two and a half times the height of the aperture.

Shell coloration is dark brown, showing as irregular axial streaks between the hydrophanous areas of the periostracum.

Shell height is up to 11 mm, and width up to 5.2 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1