Powelliphanta "Lodestone"

Powelliphanta "Lodestone"

Range Restricted (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Powelliphanta
Species:
P. "Lodestone"
Binomial name
Powelliphanta "Lodestone"

Powelliphanta "Lodestone" is a provisional name for an as yet undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, an "amber snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Conservation status

Powelliphanta "Lodestone" is classified by the New Zealand Threat Classification System as Range restricted.

References

  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Department of Conservation Recovery Plans
  • New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification


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