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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Powelliphanta (Genus)
> rossiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Paryphanta (Powelliphanta) O'Connor, 1945
Synonymised Names:
=Paryphanta (Powelliphanta) rossiana Powell, 1930
=Paryphanta rossiana Powell, 1930
Images: Powelliphanta rossiana (Powell, 1930)
Holotype, collected in Mar 1910, Mt. Greenland, Ross, Westland, NZ (MA72114). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected in Mar 1910, Mt. Greenland, Ross, Westland, NZ (MA72114). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected in Mar 1910, Mt. Greenland, Ross, Westland, NZ (MA72114). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
RHYTIDIDAE: RHYTIDINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Rhytidoidei (Infraorder)
> Rhytidoidea (Superfamily)
> Rhytididae (Family)
> Rhytidinae (Subfamily)
> Powelliphanta (Genus)
> rossiana (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Paryphanta (Powelliphanta) O'Connor, 1945
Synonymised Names:
=Paryphanta (Powelliphanta) rossiana Powell, 1930
=Paryphanta rossiana Powell, 1930
Details: Powelliphanta rossiana (Powell, 1930)
Size/Grows to:
Length 38mm, Height 25mm
Distribution:
South Island. Ross, Westland
Geographical Range:
L.S.
Notes:
Kauri Snail, Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Meads, M.J., Walker, K.J., Elliott, G.P. 1984 Status, conservation, and management of the land snails of the genus Powelliphanta (Mollusca: Pulmonata), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 11(3) (p.298)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.341)
  • Climo, F.M. 1978 The Powelliphanta gilliesi - traversi - hochstetteri - rossiana - lignaria - superba ring species (Mollusca: Pulmonata), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 5(2) (p.289)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1930 The Paryphantidae of New Zealand: their hypothetical ancestry, with descriptions of new species and a new genus, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 1 (p.44) Original Description

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
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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