Cytora brooki
| Cytora brooki | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Pupinidae |
| Genus: | Cytora |
| Species: | C. brooki
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| Binomial name | |
| Cytora brooki Marshall & Barker, 2007
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Cytora brooki is a species of land snail that is endemic to New Zealand.
Description
[edit | edit source]The height of the shell grows up to 5.6 millimetres (0.22 in).[1]
Range
[edit | edit source]Cytora brooki is only found on the north west of the Aupōuri Peninsula, at elevations up to approximately 250 metres (820 ft). The species has been found in holocene dune fossils at Te Werahi.[1]
Conservation status
[edit | edit source]Cytora brooki is listed under the New Zealand Threat Classification System as "Nationally Endangered".[2]
Etymology
[edit | edit source]Cytora brooki was named after [[Lua error in Module:Wd at line 633: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]] due to his work on biogeography and "systematics of terrestrial pulmonates".[1]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]This species was described in 2007. A specimen is stored at Te Papa under registration number M.188693.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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