Cytora

Cytora is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]

Cytora
Cytora lignaria
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Cytora

Description

The height of the shell is less than 7 mm.[1]

Species

There are 42 species in the genus Cytora. However, 23 of them were first described in 2007.[1]

Species in the genus Cytora include:[2]

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References

  1. Bruce A. Marshall & Gary M. Barker (2007) A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae). Tuhinga, Number 18 (2007), 49-113.
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1


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