Cytora

Cytora
Cytora lignaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Pupinidae
Subfamily:	Liareinae
Genus:	Cytora Kobelt & Moellendorff, 1897

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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]

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]

• Cytora annectens (Powell, 1948)
• Cytora aranea (Powell, 1928)
• Cytora calva (Hutton, 1882)
• Cytora chiltoni (Suter, 1896)
• Cytora cytora (Gray, 1850)
• Cytora depressa Gardner, 1968
• Cytora fasciata (Suter, 1894)
• Cytora filicosta (Powell, 1948)
• Cytora goulstonei B. A. Marshall & G. M. Barker, 2007
• Cytora hedleyi (Suter, 1894)
• Cytora hirsutissima (Powell, 1951)
• Cytora hispida Gardner, 1967
• Cytora kiama Climo, 1973
• Cytora lignaria (Pfeiffer, 1857)
• Cytora pallida (Hutton, 1883)
• Cytora pannosa (Hutton, 1882)
• Cytora rakiura Marshall & Barker, 2007
• Cytora septentrionale (Suter, 1907)
• Cytora solitaria (Powell, 1935)
• Cytora tekakiensis Gardner, 1967
• Cytora torquillum (Suter, 1894)
• Cytora tuarua B. A. Marshall & G. M. Barker, 2007

Synonyms

• Cytora ampla(Powell, 1941): synonym of Cytora lignaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)

References

1. Bruce Anders Marshall; Gary Michael Barker (2007). "A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Mollendorff, 1897 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae)". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 18. Te Papa: 49–113. doi: 10.3897/TUHINGA.18.E34163 . ISSN   1173-4337. Wikidata   Q106839770.
2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1