Rhytida greenwoodi

Rhytida greenwoodi
Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Rhytididae
Genus:	Rhytida
Species:	R. greenwoodi
Binomial name
Rhytida greenwoodi (Gray, 1850)

Rhytida greenwoodi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Subspecies

• Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi(Gray, 1950) North Island
• Rhytida greenwoodi stephenensis Powell, 1930 Stephens Island, Cook Strait
• Rhytida greenwoodi webbi Powell, 1949 South Island

Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand ^[1]

Ecology

A pile of Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi eggs

The number and size of eggs laid, dimensions of eggs of Rhytida greenwoodi are 3.25 × 2.73, 3 × 2.8, 2.75 × 2.5, 3.5 × 2.75, 5 × 4, 4 × 3, 3.75 × 3, 4.75 × 4, 4.75 × 3.75, 4.75 × 3.5 mm. ^[2]

References

1. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
2. O'Connor A. C. (June) 1945. Notes on the Eggs of New Zealand Paryphantidae, With Description of a New Subgenus. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 5, 1945-46, pages 54-57.