Wainuia clarki

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Wainuia clarki
Status NZTCS NC.svg
Nationally Critical (NZ TCS) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Wainuia
Species:
W. clarki
Binomial name
Wainuia clarki
Powell, 1936
Synonyms
  • Rhytida clarki

Wainuia clarki is a species of air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

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Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand [2]

Feeding habits

Wainuia clarki feeds mainly on earthworms. [3]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rhytididae</span> Family of gastropods

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<i>Wainuia</i> Genus of gastropods

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<i>Powelliphanta rossiana</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Powelliphanta patrickensis</i> Species of gastropod

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This is an as-yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species, provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Egmont". It is one of the amber snails, an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

An as-yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species is provisionally known as Powelliphanta sp. from the Baton River. This is one of the amber snails. It is an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

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Powelliphanta "Lodestone" is a provisional name for an as yet undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, an "amber snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

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<i>Rhytida australis</i> Species of gastropod

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<i>Rhytida oconnori</i> Species of gastropod

Rhytida oconnori is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. It is found only at the top of New Zealand's South Island in the Abel Tasman National Park and at Parapara Peak in Golden Bay.

References

  1. Walker, Kath; et al. (February 2024). Todd, Amanda (ed.). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous terrestrial Gastropoda (slugs and snails) (PDF) (Report). Part 3. Rhytididae (carnivorous snails), 2022. New Zealand Department of Conservation. p. 26. ISBN   978-1-7385800-7-1. ISSN   2324-1713 . Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  2. Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  3. Efford M. G. 2000. Consumption of amphipods by the New Zealand landsnail Wainuia urnula (Pulmonata: Rhytididae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 66: 45–52. abstract