Wainuia clarki
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| Wainuia clarki | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Wainuia |
| Species: | W. clarki
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| Binomial name | |
| Wainuia clarki Powell, 1936
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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
This species occurs in New Zealand[2]
Feeding habits
Wainuia clarki feeds mainly on earthworms.[3]
References
- ↑ Walker, Kath; et al. (February 2024). Todd, Amanda (ed.). Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous terrestrial Gastropoda (slugs and snails) (PDF) (Report). Part 3. Rhytididae (carnivorous snails), 2022. New Zealand Department of Conservation. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-7385800-7-1. ISSN 2324-1713. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ↑ 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
