Liarea egea egea

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Liarea egea egea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Liarea
Species: L. aupouria
Subspecies: L. egea egea
Trinomial name
Liarea egea egea
(Gray, 1850)
Synonyms

Realia egea Gray, 1850

Liarea egea egea is a subspecies of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae.

[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, from Rotorua and the Waikato north to Wellsford, and also on Little Barrier Island and the Hen and Chickens Islands.

[edit] Shell description

The shell spire is about 1.33 times the height of the aperture.

The shell colour pattern consists of a broad spiral brown band on the upper base, and a hydrophanous pattern of irregular axial streaks on the spire.

Shell height is up to 7.3 mm, and width up to 4.5 mm.

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