Liarea aupouria tara

Taxobox
name = "Liarea aupouria tara"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Liareidae
genus = "Liarea"
species = "L. aupouria"
subspecies = "L. aupouria tara"
trinomial = "Liarea aupouria tara"
trinomial_authority = Powell, 1954
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"Liarea aupouria tara" is a subspecies of land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand, found at the Kerr Point herbfield near North Cape at the far north of the North Island.

hell description

This subspecies is a smaller and more slender form of "Liarea aupouria", resembling "Liarea turriculata" but with the narrowly flanged peristome of "Liarea aupouria".

The shell colour pattern is hydrophanous, with diffused axial streaks in dark olive-brown on a buff ground, and a single spiral band of dark brown around the upper base.

Shell height is up to 10 mm, and width up to 4.3 mm.

References

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