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Wainuia is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.
[edit] Distribution
This genus is endemic to New Zealand; the range extends from the middle of the South Island northwards to the middle of the North Island.
[edit] Shell description
Species in this genus have very thin shells, almost translucent, composed of chitinous material, and varying in colour from brown to almost black, but always without a colour pattern.
[edit] Species within the genus Wainuia
- Wainuia clarki (Powell,1936), North Island
- Wainuia edwardi (Suter,1899), South Island
- Wainuia fallai (Powell,1946), South Island
- Wainuia urnula urnula (Pfeiffer,1855), North Island
- Wainuia urnula nasuta (Powell,1946), D'Urville Island
- Wainuia sp. not yet described, Fiordland, South Island
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