Wainuia

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]

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

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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. 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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