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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)
> Wainuia (Genus)
> clarki (Species)
Images: Wainuia clarki (Powell, 1936)
Holotype, collected Motutaiko Island, Lake Taupo, NZ (MA70848). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected Motutaiko Island, Lake Taupo, NZ (MA70848). © Auckland Museum (CC-BY)
Holotype, collected Motutaiko Island, Lake Taupo, NZ (MA70848). © 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)
> Wainuia (Genus)
> clarki (Species)
Details: Wainuia clarki (Powell, 1936)
Size/Grows to:
Length 26mm, Height 18mm
Distribution:
Central North Island. Lake Taupo area
Geographical Range:
L.N.
Notes:
Land, Native - 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.27)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.343)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1936 The Paryphantidae of New Zealand. 3. Further new species of Paryphanta and Wainuia, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2 (p.36) 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