Liarea lepida

Taxobox
name = "Liarea lepida"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Liareidae
genus = "Liarea"
species = "L. lepida"
binomial = "Liarea lepida"
binomial_authority = (Suter, 1904)
synonyms = "Realia turriculata lepida" Suter, 1904

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

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found in the southern half of the North Island.

hell description

The shell is small but of many whorls, generally of pale olive colour. indistinctly paler-streaked with hydrophanous areas.

Shell height is up to 7.5 mm, and width up to 4 mm.

References

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