Rhytida meesoni
Appearance
Rhytida meesoni | |
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Rhytida meesoni spp. perampla | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Genus: | Rhytida |
Species: | R. meesoni
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Binomial name | |
Rhytida meesoni Suter, 1891
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Rhytida meesoni is a species of small, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Subspecies
[edit]- Rhytida meesoni meesoni Suter, 1891 South Island
- Rhytida meesoni perampla Powell, 1946 South Island
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in New Zealand[1]
Life cycle
[edit]Dimensions of a group of eggs of Rhytida meesoni were 2.75 × 2.5, 2.75 × 2.25, 2.5 × 2.25, 2.5 × 2, 2.25 × 2 mm.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.