Cytora solitaria
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| Cytora solitaria (Powell, 1935) |
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Murdochia solitaria Powell, 1935 |
Cytora solitaria is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.
[edit] Distribution
This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand.
[edit] Shell description
The shell is turbinate, with tightly coiled spire-whorls, body whorl greatly accelerated, and moderately wide umbilicus. Sculpture is of numerous retractive axial threads. The peristome is almost circular, continued by a callus across the parietal wall.
Coloration of the shell is reddish-brown with a moderately wide light yellowish band on the periphery of the body whorl.
Shell height is up to 4 mm, and width up to 4.2 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
