Rhytida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Genus: | Rhytida Martens, 1860 |
Species | |
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Rhytida is a genus of small to medium-large, air-breathing, predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.
This is the type genus of the family.
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This genus is endemic to New Zealand[1]
Species in the genus Rhytida include[1][2]:
Wainuia have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle.[3]