Powelliphanta "Lodestone" is a provisional name for an as yet undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, an "amber snail", a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | Not yet described
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Conservation status
editPowelliphanta "Lodestone" is classified by the New Zealand Threat Classification System as Range Restricted.
References
edit- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Department of Conservation Recovery Plans
- New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification