Rhytida greenwoodi
| Rhytida greenwoodi | |
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| Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Rhytida |
| Species: | R. greenwoodi
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhytida greenwoodi (Gray, 1850)
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Rhytida greenwoodi is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing predatory land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
Subspecies
- Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi (Gray, 1950) North Island
- Rhytida greenwoodi stephenensis Powell, 1930 Stephens Island, Cook Strait
- Rhytida greenwoodi webbi Powell, 1949 South Island
Distribution
This species occurs in New Zealand.[1][2]
Ecology
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The number and size of eggs laid, dimensions of eggs of Rhytida greenwoodi are 3.25 × 2.73, 3 × 2.8, 2.75 × 2.5, 3.5 × 2.75, 5 × 4, 4 × 3, 3.75 × 3, 4.75 × 4, 4.75 × 3.75, 4.75 × 3.5 mm.[3]
References
Wikispecies has information related to Rhytida greenwoodi.
- ^ Gray, John Edward (1851). "Description of a New Genus and Several New Species of Terrestrial, Fluviatile and Marine Molluscous Animals Inhabiting New Zealand". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Second Series. 7. London: Richard Taylor: 64–69 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Baden Powell, Arthur William (1979). New Zealand Mollusca. Auckland, New Zealand: William Collins Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- ^ O'Connor A. C. (June) 1945. Notes on the Eggs of New Zealand Paryphantidae, With Description of a New Subgenus. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, volume 5, 1945-46, pages 54-57.