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Cytora filicosta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Mesogastropoda
Family: Liareidae
Genus: Cytora
Species: C. Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 The class Gastropoda or the gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves, and more commonly known as Snails Mesogastropoda was for many years a traditional Taxonomic group of Snails an order. Liareidae is a Taxonomic Family of small terrestrial Pulmonate Snails Gastropod Molluscs in the order Cytora is a genus of terrestrial Pulmonate Gastropod Molluscs in the family Liareidae. filicosta
Binomial name
Cytora filicosta
(Powell, 1948 )
Synonyms

Murdochia filicosta Powell, 1948

Cytora filicosta is a species of small land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Liareidae. Dr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE (4 April 1901 - 1 July 1987 was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and Palaeontologist, a In Scientific nomenclature, synonyms are different Scientific names used for a single Taxon. Dr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE (4 April 1901 - 1 July 1987 was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and Palaeontologist, a In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. The word snail is a Common name that can be used for almost all members of the Molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the Terrestrial animals are Animals that live predominantly or entirely on land as compared with Aquatic animals which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e The class Gastropoda or the gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves, and more commonly known as Snails Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000 In Biological classification, family ( Latin Liareidae is a Taxonomic Family of small terrestrial Pulmonate Snails Gastropod Molluscs in the order

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Distribution

This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand. Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere The Three Kings Islands ( Manawa-tawhi or Ngā Motu Karaka in Māori) are a group of New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island

Habitat

This snail is found in leaf mould.

Shell description

The shell is acutely conical, with lightly convex whorls, and a sub-angled periphery. A whorl is a single complete 360° turn in the Spiral growth of a Mollusc shell. It is sculptured with numerous retractive membranous axial threads. Sculpture on a Mollusc shell is whatever natural 3-dimensional ornamentation exists on the outer surface of a shell apart from the basic shape of the shell itself

Coloration of the shell is very dark brown, almost black.

Shell height is up to 4. 2 mm, and width up to 2. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to 9 mm.

References

Dr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE (4 April 1901 - 1 July 1987 was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and Palaeontologist, a Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar)
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