Powelliphanta patrickensis | |
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At the Denniston Plateau (March 2021) | |
Inside its shell (2017) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Genus: | Powelliphanta |
Species: | P. patrickensis
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Binomial name | |
Powelliphanta patrickensis Powell, 1949
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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.
This species occurs only on the Denniston-Stockton Plateau on the South Island of New Zealand.[1][2]
Powelliphanta patrickensis is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Nationally Endangered.[3] The population is threatened by mining, roading, and introduced predators such as thrushes, rats and possums.[2]