Powelliphanta "Haast"
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | Not yet described
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This yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species, provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Haast", is one of the amber snails which is an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Conservation status
Powelliphanta "Haast" is classified as being in Gradual decline by the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification
- Department of Conservation Recovery Plans