Powelliphanta gilliesi kahurangica

Taxobox
name = "Powelliphanta gilliesi kahurangica"


image_caption = A "Powelliphanta" of unknown species.
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status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Rhytididae
genus = "Powelliphanta"
species = "P. gilliesi"
subspecies = "P. gilliesi kahurangica"
trinomial = "Powelliphanta gilliesi kahurangica"
trinomial_authority = E. A. Smith, 1880

"Powelliphanta gilliesi kahurangica", known as one of the amber snails, is a subspecies of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is found only on Kahurangi Point in West Nelson.

Habitat

This snail lives in coastal scrub.

hell description

The shell has finer granulations of the parietal callus than other subspecies, and a basal dark zone is not present, but there are four or five prominent dark brown peripheral spiral bands.

The major diameter is up to 54 mm, and height up to 27 mm.

References

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