Liarea ornata

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Liarea ornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Liarea
Species: L. ornata
Binomial name
Liarea ornata
Powell, 1954

Liarea ornata 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 Northland in the North Island.

[edit] Shell description

Sculpture is confined to subobsolute axial growth lines, the surface appearing smooth and polished.

Colour pattern is hydrophanous, the basic coloration being dark reddish-brown, maculated with elaborate chevrons and axial streaks in pale buff.

Shell height is up to 8.7 mm, and width up to 5 mm.

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