Cytora torquilla

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Cytora torquilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Cytora
Species: C. torquilla
Binomial name
Cytora torquilla
(Suter, 1894)
Synonyms

Lagochilus torquilla Suter, 1894

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

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, including the Poor Knights Islands.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is minute, tall-spired, narrow, with all whorls strongly convex. The umbilicus is very narrow.

Coloration of the shell is uniformly reddish-brown, crossed by white, thread-like membranous, slightly retractive axials.

Shell height is up to 2.5 mm, and width up to 1.75 mm.

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