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Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis

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Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis
Type specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Powelliphanta
Species:
Subspecies:
P. h. anatokiensis
Trinomial name
Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis
Powell, 1938

Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis, known as one of the amber snails, is a subspecies of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. It is found in New Zealand.

Conservation status

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Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being in Gradual Decline.

Distribution

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Life cycle

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Shape of the eggs is oval and seldom constant in dimensions 9.5 by 7 millimetres (0.37 in × 0.28 in), 8.5 by 6 millimetres (0.33 in × 0.24 in), 12 by 10.5 millimetres (0.47 in × 0.41 in), 12 by 10 millimetres (0.47 in × 0.39 in), 12.5 by 10.5 millimetres (0.49 in × 0.41 in).[2]

References

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  1. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  2. ^ 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.