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]
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| Cytora lignaria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Cyclophoroidea |
| Family: | Pupinidae |
| Subfamily: | Liareinae |
| Genus: | Cytora Kobelt & Moellendorff, 1897 |
Description
editThe height of the shell is less than 7 mm.[1]
Species
editThere 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 torquilla (Suter, 1894)
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- Synonyms
- Cytora ampla (Powell, 1941): synonym of Cytora lignaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
References
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- ^ a b c 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. ISSN 1173-4337. Wikidata Q106839770.
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1