Schizoglossa
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Schizoglossa is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory, air-breathing, land slugs, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae, which also contains the genera Powelliphanta and Rhytida.
These slugs have a small shell that they cannot contract into.
[edit] Distribution
This genus is endemic to New Zealand.
[edit] Species and subspecies within the genus Schizoglossa
- Schizoglossa gigantea Powell, 1930 Gisborne, Hawkes Bay subfossil, East Cape
- Schizoglossa major Powell, 1938 † Waikato subfossil
- Paua slug, Schizoglossa novoseelandica novoseelandica (Pfeiffer, 1862) North Island
- Paua slug, Schizoglossa novoseelandica barrierensis Powell, 1949 Great Barrier Island
- Schizoglossa worthyae Powell, 1949 North Island
