Schizoglossa

Schizoglossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Superorder:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Pulmonata
Suborder:	Eupulmonata
Family:	Rhytididae
Genus:	Schizoglossa Hedley,1892
Species
See text.

Schizoglossa is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory, air-breathing, land slugs, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae, which also contains the genera Powelliphanta and Rhytida.

These slugs have a small shell that they cannot contract into.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Species and subspecies within the genus Schizoglossa

• Schizoglossa gigantea Powell, 1930 Gisborne, Hawkes Bay subfossil, East Cape
• Schizoglossa major Powell, 1938 † Waikato subfossil
• Paua slug, Schizoglossa novoseelandica novoseelandica (Pfeiffer, 1862) North Island
• Paua slug, Schizoglossa novoseelandica barrierensis Powell, 1949 Great Barrier Island
• Schizoglossa worthyae Powell, 1949 North Island

References

• New Zealand Mollusca