Wainuia | |
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Wainuia edwardi | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Subfamily: | Rhytidinae |
Genus: |
Wainuia Powell, 1930 |
Species | |
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Wainuia is a genus of air-breathing predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae. Species in this genus occur in New Zealand. [1]
The width of the shell of Wainuia is 21–38 mm. [2]
Species within the genus Wainuia include: [1]
Species of the genus Wainuia are carnivorous.
Wainuia have eggs with a calcareous surface which lacks cuticle. [3]