Cytora lignaria

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Cytora lignaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Cytora
Species: C. lignaria
Binomial name
Cytora lignaria
(Pfeiffer, 1857)
Synonyms

Cyclostoma lignarium Pfeiffer, 1857

Cytora lignaria is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, found in the northern Aupouri Peninsula. Also known from fossils in Holocene dunes at Te Werahi.

[edit] Habitat

Cytora lignaria is a litter-dwelling detritivore, its habitat comprising shrubland, Kunzea forest, and broadleaved and conifer-broadleaved forests, from near sea-level to about 300 m elevation.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is wider than high. The umbilicus is deep, about one sixth the diameter of the shell. Sculpture is of low, irregular, weak, membranous, axial riblets. The surface is smooth apart from exceedingly fine traces of spiral striae.

Coloration is yellowish-brown.

Shell height is up to 4 mm, and width up to 5 mm.

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