Cytora hispida
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| Cytora hispida Gardner, 1967 |
Cytora hispida is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.
[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to Cape Maria van Diemen and North Cape at the north of the North Island of New Zealand.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is is similar in outline to Cytora aranea but the axial ribs bear bristles, and are more numerous.
Coloration of the shell is reddish-brown.
Shell height is up to 3.5 mm, and width up to 1.75 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
