Wainuia

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Rhytidoidea Scientific name Wainuia Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Family Rhytididae Higher classification Rhytididae
Lower classifications Wainuia urnula, Wainuia edwardi, Wainuia (species unknown), Wainuia clarki, Wainuia fallai

Wainuia is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.

Distribution

Species in this genus occur in:

The width of the shell of Wainuia is 21–38 mm.

Species within the genus Wainuia include:

Wainuia clarki (Powell, 1936), North Island

Wainuia edwardi (Suter, 1899), South Island

Wainuia fallai (Powell, 1946), South Island

Wainuia urnula

Wainuia urnula urnula (Pfeiffer, 1855), North Island

Wainuia urnula nasuta (Powell, 1946), D'Urville Island

Wainuia sp. not yet described, Fiordland, South Island

Species of the genus Wainuia are carnivorous.

Wainuia have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle.

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