Rhytida greenwoodi
Appearance
Rhytida greenwoodi | |
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Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Genus: | Rhytida |
Species: | R. greenwoodi
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Binomial name | |
Rhytida greenwoodi (Gray, 1850)
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Rhytida greenwoodi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Subspecies
[edit]- Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi (Gray, 1950) North Island
- Rhytida greenwoodi stephenensis Powell, 1930 Stephens Island, Cook Strait
- Rhytida greenwoodi webbi Powell, 1949 South Island
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in New Zealand[1]
Ecology
[edit]The number and size of eggs laid , dimensions of eggs of Rhytida greenwoodi are 3.25 × 2.73, 3 × 2.8, 2.75 × 2.5, 3.5 × 2.75, 5 × 4, 4 × 3, 3.75 × 3, 4.75 × 4, 4.75 × 3.75, 4.75 × 3.5 mm.[2]
References
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Rhytida greenwoodi.
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ O'Connor A. C. (June) 1945. Notes on the Eggs of New Zealand Paryphantidae, With Description of a New Subgenus. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 5, 1945-46, pages 54-57.