Wainuia clarki
| Wainuia clarki | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Wainuia |
| Species: | W. clarki
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| Binomial name | |
| Wainuia clarki Powell, 1936
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| Synonyms | |
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Wainuia clarki is a species of air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in New Zealand[1]
Feeding habits[edit]
Wainuia clarki feeds mainly on earthworms.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ Efford M. G. 2000. Consumption of amphipods by the New Zealand landsnail Wainuia urnula (Pulmonata: Rhytididae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 66: 45–52. abstract
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