Powelliphanta marchanti

Powelliphanta marchanti
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Powelliphanta
Species: P. marchanti
Trinomial name
Powelliphanta marchanti
Powell, 1932

Powelliphanta marchanti, known as one of the amber snails, is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Conservation status

Powelliphanta marchanti is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Serious Decline.

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