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Climocella reinga
Climocella reinga is a species of land snail belonging to the family Charopidae. Endemic to New Zealand, exclusively in upper Northland, near the Aupōuri Peninsula and Kaitaia.
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Description
C. reinga has a shell that measures up to 2.9 mm (0.11 in) by 1.5 mm (0.059 in), with a subdiscoidal shell of 4.25 whorls that increase in size. The shell's spire is flat or slightly convex, and the protoconch has 1.75 whorls with the first whorl having six spiral lirae. The shells are uniformly reddish-brown in colour, however preserved specimen shells can become white.
Range & habitat
C. reinga is endemic to New Zealand, found on the Aupōuri Peninsula in Northland and the area surrounding Kaitaia, and lives in broadleaf forest and scrubland. Holocene subfossils of the species are prolifically found in sand dunes on the Aupōuri Peninsula. It is the most common land snail found in the Te Paki Ecological Region.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 387698.