Powelliphanta hochstetteri
| Powelliphanta hochstetteri | |
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| Powelliphanta hochstetteri, Rameka Track, Golden Bay | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Powelliphanta |
| Species: | P. hochstetteri |
| Binomial name | |
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Powelliphanta hochstetteri (Pfeiffer, 1862) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix Hochstetteri Pfeiffer, 1862 |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Helix Hochstetteri Pfeiffer, 1862
Powelliphanta hochstetteri, known as one of the amber snails, is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
This species is endemic to the Marlborough and Nelson provinces of the South Island of New Zealand. There are five subspecies:
Powelliphanta hochstetteri was originally described under the name Helix hochstetteri by German malacologist Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer in 1862. He described it according to the shell only, which geologist German Ferdinand von Hochstetter had brought from the New Zealand. The specific name hochstetteri is in honor of Ferdinand von Hochstetter.
The shape of the eggs is oval and they are seldom constant in dimensions: 12 × 10 mm.
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