Wainuia

Wainuia
Wainuia edwardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Subfamily: Rhytidinae
Genus: Wainuia
Powell, 1930
Species

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Wainuia is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae. Species in this genus occur in New Zealand.[1]

Description

The width of the shell of Wainuia is 21–38 mm.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Wainuia include:[1]

Ecology

Species of the genus Wainuia are carnivorous.

Wainuia have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  2. ^ Efford M., Howitt R. & Gleeson D. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of Wainuia (Mollusca: Pulmonata)—biogeography and conservation implications. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2002, 445–456.
  3. ^ 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.

Further reading

  • Efford M. G. 1998 Distribution and status of native carnivorous land snails in the genera Wainuia and Rhytida. Science for Conservation 101: 1–47.


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