''Wainuia'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
predatory
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land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the
family
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Rhytididae. Species in this genus occur in
New Zealand
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.
[ Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ]
Description
The width of the shell of ''Wainuia'' is 21–38 mm.
[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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Wainuia'' include:
* ''
Wainuia clarki''
( Powell, 1936),
North Island
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* ''
Wainuia edwardi''
(Suter
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, 1899),
South Island
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* ''
Wainuia fallai''
( Powell, 1946),
South Island
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* ''
Wainuia urnula''
** ''Wainuia urnula urnula''
( Pfeiffer, 1855),
North Island
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** ''
Wainuia urnula nasuta''
( Powell, 1946),
D'Urville Island
Ecology
Species of the genus ''Wainuia'' are carnivorous.
''Wainuia'' have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle.
[ 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, page]
54
57.
References
New Zealand Department of Conservation
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.
Rhytididae
Taxa named by Arthur William Baden Powell
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