Rhytida patula
Appearance
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | R. patula
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Rhytida patula Hutton, 1883
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Rhytida patula is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Distribution
This species occurs in New Zealand[1]
Life cycle
Dimensions of eggs of Rhytida patula are 2.75 × 2.5, 3 × 2.25, 2.5 × 2, 3 × 2.5, 3 × 2.25, 3 × 2.25 mm.[2]
References
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ O'Connor A. C. (June) 1945. Notes on the Eggs of New Zealand Paryphantidae, With Description of a New Subgenus. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 5, 1945-46, pages 54-57.