Liarea ornata

Taxobox
name = "Liarea ornata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Mesogastropoda
familia = Liareidae
genus = "Liarea"
species = "L. ornata"
binomial = "Liarea ornata"
binomial_authority = Powell, 1954
synonyms =

"Liarea ornata" 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 Northland in the North Island.

hell description

Sculpture is confined to subobsolute axial growth lines, the surface appearing smooth and polished.

Colour pattern is hydrophanous, the basic coloration being dark reddish-brown, maculated with elaborate chevrons and axial streaks in pale buff.

Shell height is up to 8.7 mm, and width up to 5 mm.

References

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