Cytora lignaria is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae.

Cytora lignaria
Cytora lignaria shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Pupinidae
Genus: Cytora
Species:
C. lignaria
Binomial name
Cytora lignaria
(Pfeiffer, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Cyclostoma lignarium Pfeiffer, 1857
  • Cytora ampla (A. W. B. Powell, 1941)
  • Japonia (Cytora) lignaria (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) (unaccepted combination)
  • Murdochia ampla A. W. B. Powell, 1941

Distribution

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This species occur in New Zealand.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1