Rhytida otagoensis

Taxobox
name = "Rhytida otagoensis"


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status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Rhytididae
genus = "Rhytida"
species = "R. otagoensis"
binomial = "Rhytida otagoensis"
binomial_authority = [Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell] , 1930

"Rhytida otagoensis"is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Distribution

This species of land snail is endemic to the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand.

hell description

The shell is larger than the living adult size of "Rhytida australis", with deeper whorls, and less prominent malleations, crossed by weak irregular axial folds and growth-lines. The shell colour is greenish-olive and the umbilicus has no dark zone. The shell diameter is up to 18 mm, and height up to 10 mm.

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1