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Wainuia edwardi (Suter, 1899)Species Images
Mount Fyffe, Kaikoura, Canterbury, NZ. Diamenter approx. 30mm
Wainuia edwardi (Suter, 1899)
Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Euthyneura (Infraclass) > Tectipleura (Subterclass) > Eupulmonata (Superorder) > Stylommatophora (Order) > Helicina (Suborder) > Rhytidoidei (Infraorder) > Rhytidoidea (Superfamily) > Rhytididae (Family) > Wainuia (Genus) > edwardi (Species)
Family:
RHYTIDIDAE
Size/Grows to:
Length 37mm, Height 24mm
Synonyms:
(=fallai Powell)
Distribution:
South Island. North Canterbury to Kaikoura
Geographical Range:
L.S.E.
Notes:
Land, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Efford, M.G. 1998 Distribution and status of native carnivorous land snails in the genera Wainuia and Rhytida, Department of Conservation, Wellington, 101 (p.31)
  • Elliott, B.F. Aug/1985 Some observations on Wainuia fallai and Wainuia edwardi, Poirieria, 14(2) (p.6)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.343)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil