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.
Description
The height of the shell is less than 7 mm.
Species
There are 42 species in the genus Cytora. However, 23 of them were first described in 2007.
Species in the genus Cytora include:
- Cytora annectens <small>(Powell, 1948)</small>
- Cytora aranea <small>(Powell, 1928)</small>
- Cytora calva <small>(Hutton, 1882)</small>
- Cytora chiltoni <small>(Suter, 1896)</small>
- Cytora cytora <small>(Gray, 1850)</small>
- Cytora depressa <small>Gardner, 1968</small>
- Cytora fasciata <small>(Suter, 1894)</small>
- Cytora filicosta <small>(Powell, 1948)</small>
- Cytora goulstonei <small>B. A. Marshall & G. M. Barker, 2007</small>
- Cytora hedleyi <small>(Suter, 1894)</small>
- Cytora hirsutissima <small>(Powell, 1951)</small>
- Cytora hispida <small>Gardner, 1967</small>
- Cytora kiama <small>Climo, 1973</small>
- Cytora lignaria <small>(Pfeiffer, 1857)</small>
- Cytora pallida <small>(Hutton, 1883)</small>
- Cytora pannosa <small>(Hutton, 1882)</small>
- Cytora rakiura <small>Marshall & Barker, 2007</small>
- Cytora septentrionale <small>(Suter, 1907)</small>
- Cytora solitaria <small>(Powell, 1935)</small>
- Cytora tekakiensis <small>Gardner, 1967</small>
- Cytora torquillum <small>(Suter, 1894)</small>
- Cytora tuarua <small>B. A. Marshall & G. M. Barker, 2007</small>
Synonyms:
- Cytora ampla <small>(Powell, 1941)</small>: synonym of Cytora lignaria <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)</small>
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