Wainuia

Taxobox
name = "Wainuia" snail
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Heterobranchia
ordo = Pulmonata
subordo = Eupulmonata
familia = Rhytididae
genus = "Wainuia"
genus_authority = Powell,1930
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Wainuia" is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand; the range extends from the middle of the South Island northwards to the middle of the North Island.

hell description

Species in this genus have very thin shells, almost translucent, composed of chitinous material, and varying in colour from brown to almost black, but always without a colour pattern.

pecies within the genus "Wainuia"

* "Wainuia clarki" (Powell,1936), North Island
* "Wainuia edwardi" (Suter,1899), South Island
* "Wainuia fallai" (Powell,1946), South Island
* "Wainuia urnula urnula" (Pfeiffer,1855), North Island
* "Wainuia urnula nasuta" (Powell,1946), D'Urville Island
* "Wainuia sp." not yet described, Fiordland, South Island

References

* [http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist/checklist_frameset.htm Checklist of New Zealand Mollusca]
* [http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sfc101b.pdf New Zealand Department of Conservation]
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* WikiSpecies