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The numbers of this Powelliphanta species are estimated to be fewer than 500, and their existing habitat covers 3 to 4 hectares (7.4 to 9.9 acres). The Wildlife Permit granted allowed Solid Energy to mine 96% of this area. There was also concern over the destruction of Powelliphanta habitat by the mining company OMYA on Mount Burnett, in Golden ...
Powelliphanta is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropods in the family Rhytididae, found only in New Zealand. They are carnivorous , eating invertebrates , mostly native earthworms.
Walker completed a PhD titled Systematics and phylogeography of the large land snail Powelliphanta at Massey University in 2018. [2] Her research reexamined the status of Powelliphanta in New Zealand, describing 20 distinct species and 59 subspecies. [1] Walker is a science advisor at the Department of Conservation.
"A new species of Powelliphanta (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Rhytididae) land snail from the Stockton Plateau, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 38 (3): 163–186. doi: 10.1080/03014220809510553. Powell, A. W. B. (1930). "The Paryphantidae of New Zealand: their Hypothetical Ancestry, with descriptions of New Species and a New ...
Powelliphanta "vittatus" This page was last edited on 31 March 2013, at 18:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Powelliphanta gilliesi, one of the "amber snails", is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Powelliphanta patrickensis is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of Powelliphanta rossiana.
An as-yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species is provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Anatoki Range". It is one of the amber snails. It is one of the amber snails. It is an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail , a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae .