Powelliphanta hochstetteri consobrina
| Powelliphanta hochstetteri consobrina | |
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| Type specimen from the collections of Auckland War Memorial Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Powelliphanta |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | P. h. consobrina |
| Trinomial name | |
| Powelliphanta hochstetteri consobrina Powell, 1936 | |
Powelliphanta hochstetteri consobrina, known as one of the amber snails, is a subspecies of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Distribution
Life cycle
Shape of the eggs is oval and seldom constant in dimensions 9 × 7.75, 8.25 × 6.75 mm (red variety).[2]
Conservation status
Powelliphanta hochstetteri consobrina is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being 'Threatened - Nationally Critical'.[3]
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.
- ^ Walker et al. 2024 — Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous terrestrial Gastropoda Part 3