Cytora hedleyi
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| Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894) |
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Lagochilus hedleyi Suter, 1894 |
Cytora hedleyi is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.
[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand, found in the northern half of the North Island.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is very small, narrowly umbilicated, turbinate, but the spire is more narrowly conical than in Cytora cytora. The surface is densely spirally lirate, crossed by membranous axial ribs that become progressively wider spaced over the last whorl, and without hair-like processes.
The colour of the periostracum is pale yellowish-brown.
Shell height is up to 2.4 mm, and width up to 2.3 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
