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| Liarea aupouria tara | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Mesogastropoda |
| Family: | Liareidae |
| Genus: | Liarea |
| Species: | L. aupouria |
| Subspecies: | L. aupouria tara |
| Trinomial name | |
| Liarea aupouria tara Powell, 1954 | |
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.
Shell 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