Wainuia clarki

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Wainuia clarki
Conservation status
Endangered
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Pulmonata Family: Rhytididae Genus: Wainuia Species: W. clarki
Binomial name
Wainuia clarki Powell, 1936

Wainuia clarki is a species of air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Contents 1 Distribution 2 Habitat 3 Shell description 4 Life habits 5 Predators 6 References

[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, but only in a few isolated areas, Taupo and Kaweka.

[edit] Habitat

This snail lives in leaf litter and under logs.

[edit] Shell description

The shell of this species is slightly conical, and relatively tightly-coiled. The shell is greenish-brown.

[edit] Life habits

This predatory snail is known to eat earthworms, but not amphipods. It can secrete a royal blue substance from the edge of its mantle.

[edit] Predators

This snail appears to be eaten by introduced Blackbirds and Thrushes.

[edit] References

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• New Zealand Department of Conservation
• New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification