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Cytora Tuarua
''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.Bruce A. Marshall & Gary M. Barker (2007''A revision of New Zealand landsnails of the genus Cytora Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1897 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pupinidae)'' Tuhinga, Number 18 (2007), 49-113. Species in the genus ''Cytora'' include: Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * '' Cytora ampla'' (Powell, 1941) * ''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, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Lignaria
''Cytora lignaria'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum (gastropod), operculum, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in List of non-marine molluscs of New Zealand, New Zealand.Arthur William Baden Powell, Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur William Baden Powell
Arthur William Baden Powell (4 April 1901 – 1 July 1987) was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden". Biography Early life The name Baden had been a given name in a Powell family since 1731, when Susannah Powell née Thistlethwayte (1696–1762) gave to her child (1731–1792) the maiden name of her mother, Susannah Baden (1663–1692). The name Baden, particularly when associated with the surname Powell, became famous in 1900–1901, the year Arthur William Baden Powell was born, because of the siege of Mafeking, the most famous British action in the Second Boer War, which turned the British commander of the besieged, Robert Baden-Powell, into a national hero. Throughout the British Empire, babies were named after him. No family connection has yet been established between Arthur W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Hedleyi
''Cytora hedleyi'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1894 {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Filicosta
''Cytora filicosta'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Fasciata
''Cytora fasciata'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Depressa
''Cytora depressa'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1968 {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Cytora
''Cytora cytora'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occurs in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1850 {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Suter
Henry Suter (born Hans Heinrich Suter, 9 March 1841 – 31 July 1918) was a Swiss-born New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist. Biography Henry Suter was born on 9 March 1841 in Riesbach, Zurich, Switzerland, and was the son of a prosperous silk-manufacturer of Zurich. He was educated at the local school and university, being trained as an analytical chemist. Suter joined his father's business, and for some years he engaged in various commercial pursuits. From his boyhood, Henry Suter was deeply interested in natural history. He enjoyed the friendship and help of such men as Dr. Auguste Forel, Professor Paul Godet, the brothers de Saussure (linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Sinolog and astronomer Léopold de Saussure and René de Saussure Esperantist and scientist), Escher von der Linth, and especially the well-known conchologist, Dr. Albert Mousson. Partly to improve his financial prospects and partly lured by the attraction of the fauna of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Chiltoni
''Cytora chiltoni'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Description The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 2.25 mm. (Original description) The shell is very small, turbinate, subperforate, rufous, slightly glossy, thin and semi-transparent. It shows rather close longitudinal membranous white ribs, which easily rub off. They are nearly equidistant, five to six per millimetre. The spire is conical with a rather pointed apex. The periphery is rounded. The shell contains 5 convex whorls, the first three increasing slowly, the others more rapidly. They are faintly microscopically spirally striated. The body whorl is about two-thirds of the total height. The suture is impressed. The aperture is subcircular and slightly oblique. The peristome is simple and straight. The notch at the suture is very slightly indicated. The columellar lip is somewhat callous. It is expanded and covers c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Hutton (scientist)
Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton (16 November 1836 – 27 October 1905) was an English-New Zealand scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand. An army officer in early life, he then had an academic career in geology and biology. He became one of the most able and prolific nineteenth century naturalists of New Zealand. Biography Hutton was born in Gate Burton, Lincolnshire, England, the son of the Rev. Henry Frederick Hutton and his wife Louisa Wollaston, daughter of the Rev. Henry John Wollaston. He passed through Southwell grammar school and the Naval Academy at Gosport, Hampshire. He studied applied science at King's College London before being commissioned in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and fighting in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny. Hutton returned to England in 1860, and continued to study geology at Sandhurst, being elected to the Geological Society of London in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Calva
''Cytora calva'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occur in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Bruce A. Marshall, ''Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science''; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995 Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand Gastropods described in 1882 {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cytora Aranea
''Cytora aranea'' is a species of very small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Pupinidae. Distribution This species occurs in New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count .... Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 References Pupinidae Gastropods of New Zealand {{Pupinidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
