Liarea hochstetteri hochstetteri

Taxobox
name = "Liarea hochstetteri hochstetteri"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Liareidae
genus = "Liarea"
species = "L. hochstetteri"
subspecies = "L. hochstetteri hochstetteri"
trinomial = "Liarea hochstetteri hochstetteri"
trinomial_authority = (Pfeiffer, L., 1861)
synonyms = "Realia hochstetteri" Pfeiffer, L., 1861

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

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand, found in Northland in the North Island.

hell description

The shell has a broad flange surrounding the peristome. Sculpture consists of closely spaced narrow axial plications, uniformly dark horny or sepia, and never with a colour pattern or hydrophanous markings.

Shell height is up to 10.1 mm, and width up to 5.8 mm.

References

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