Powelliphanta "Baton"

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| name = Powelliphanta "Baton"

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| status = NC

| status_system = NZTCS

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| taxon = Powelliphanta

| species_text = P. "Baton"

| binomial_text = Powelliphanta "Baton"

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An as-yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species is provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Baton". This is one of the amber snails. It is an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.

Conservation status

Powelliphanta "Baton" is classified as Nationally Critical by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20081015214354/http://doc.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage.aspx?id=39593 New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification]
[http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/tsrp49b.pdf Department of Conservation Recovery Plans]