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| Wainuia clarki Powell, 1936
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Wainuia clarki is a rare terrestrial mollusc in the family Rhytididae, endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.
This species has a slightly conical, relatively tightly-coiled shell, and royal blue secretion from the mantle lip. The shell is greenish-brown.
It is known to eat earthworms, but not amphipods. It lives in leaf litter and under logs in a few isolated areas (Taupo and Kaweka) in the North Island of New Zealand and appears to be predated upon by introduced Blackbirds and Thrushes.
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- New Zealand Department of Conservation
- New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification
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