Liarea egea tessellata

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Liarea egea tessellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Liarea
Species: L. tessellata
Subspecies: L. egea tessellata
Trinomial name
Liarea egea tessellata
Powell, 1954

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

[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to Northland in New Zealand.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is larger and taller than Liarea egea egea, with an extra half to one whorl, and has a more complicated hydrophanous pattern of zigzags and tesselations.

Shell height is up to 9.5 mm, and width up to 4.8 mm.

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