Schizoglossa major

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Schizoglossa major
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Schizoglossa
Species: S. worthyae
Binomial name
Schizoglossa worthyae
Powell, 1938

Schizoglossa major was a species of large predatory, air-breathing, land slug, a carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae, which also contains the genera Powelliphanta and Rhytida.

This species is now extinct.

Like others in this genus, the slug had a shell which was quite small compared to its (hypothetical) body size.

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[edit] Distribution

This snail was endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Habitat

The shells of this species are found with moa bones at Pukemiro in the Waikato area of the North Island.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is very much larger than Schizoglossa worthyae, and more roundly ovate.

The shell length is up to 36 mm, a width of 26 mm, and a thickness of 8 mm.

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