Wainuia clarki

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Wainuia clarki
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Holotype from the Auckland War Memorial Museum
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Nationally Critical (NZ TCS) [1]
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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]

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


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