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Rhytida greenwoodi

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Rhytida greenwoodi
Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Rhytida
Species:
R. greenwoodi
Binomial name
Rhytida greenwoodi
(Gray, 1850)

Rhytida greenwoodi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Subspecies

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Distribution

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This species occurs in New Zealand[1]

Ecology

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A pile of Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi eggs

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

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  1. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  2. ^ 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.