Liarea lepida

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Liarea lepida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Liarea
Species: L. lepida
Binomial name
Liarea lepida
(Suter, 1904)
Synonyms

Realia turriculata lepida Suter, 1904

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

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to New Zealand, found in the southern half of the North Island.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is small but of many whorls, generally of pale olive colour. indistinctly paler-streaked with hydrophanous areas.

Shell height is up to 7.5 mm, and width up to 4 mm.

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