Wainuia edwardi

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Wainuia edwardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Wainuia
Species: W. edwardi
Binomial name
Wainuia edwardi
Suter, 1899

Wainuia edwardi is a rare terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

It lives under damp leaf litter and ferns in beech and mixed forest, as well as under bracken and stable moist rock piles, on the north eastern part of the South Island of New Zealand. It appears to be predated upon by introduced rats, and is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being in Gradual Decline.

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