Powelliphanta gilliesi montana

Taxobox
name = "Powelliphanta gilliesi montana"


image_caption = A "Powelliphanta" of unknown species.
image_width = 250
status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Rhytididae
genus = "Powelliphanta"
species = "P. gilliesi"
subspecies = "P. gilliesi montana"
trinomial = "Powelliphanta gilliesi montana"
trinomial_authority = Powell, 1936

"Powelliphanta gilliesi montana", 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 on the Wakamarama Range, in the West Nelson area.

Habitat

This snail lives around tussock clumps.

hell description

This species is similar to other subspecies, but the whorls are more inflated, more tightly coiled, the spire more depressed, and the umbilicus narrower and steeper sided. The shell has a finely granulated parietal callus.

Major diameter is up to 52 mm, and height up to 28 mm.

References

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