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Paryphanta is a genus of land snails in the family Rhytididae.Species from New Zealand are known commonly as kauri snails (Māori: pūpūrangi). [1] They are closely related and similar to snails in the genus Powelliphanta, which was formerly included within Paryphanta.
Possum-preyed Powelliphanta traversi snail shells. Most of these snails are under serious threat or even in danger of extinction. Their main natural predator is the weka, [9] but they have no defences against introduced mammalian predators, such as brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), pigs, hedgehogs, [10] and rats. Possums have been ...
Location of New Zealand. Non-marine molluscs of New Zealand include gastropods, such as land snails, and freshwater molluscs (or shellfish), such as freshwater mussels.Among the best known are the large native forest snails such as the Paryphanta (kauri snails) and Powelliphanta.
These snails were not eaten by the Māori people. [3] Predators of Paryphanta busbyi include rats, pigs, [3] possums, hedgehogs and birds. [4] [14] Rats and birds eat the juvenile snails. [13] Pigs eat these snails at all sizes including the eggs, and pigs also destroy the snail's habitat. [4]
Rhytididae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea. [1] This family has three subfamilies: Chlamydephorinae Cockerell, 1935 (1903) Rhytidinae Pilsbry, 1893; Corillinae Pilsbry, 1905 [2] A shell of Powelliphanta hochstetteri ...
Kauri snail (Paryphanta busbyi) Pillomena aemula; Polygyra hippocrepis; Strange many-whorled land snail (Polygyra peregrina) Powelliphanta marchantii; Pupilla ficulnea; Pupisoma sp. nov. 1; Setomedea nudicostata; Soosia diodonta; Plaited snail (Spermodea lamellata) Succinea sanctaehelenae; Keeled snail (Tasmaphena lamproides) Vallonia declivis ...
Powelliphanta traversi, known as Travers' land snail, [1] is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand between Wellington and Lake Waikaremoana .
Kauri snail (Paryphanta busbyi) Pillomena aemula; Polygyra hippocrepis; Strange many-whorled land snail (Polygyra peregrina) Powelliphanta marchantii; Pupilla ficulnea; Pupisoma sp. 1; Setomedea nudicostata; Soosia diodonta; Plaited snail (Spermodea lamellata) Succinea sanctaehelenae; Keeled snail (Tasmaphena lamproides) Vallonia declivis ...