Powelliphanta annectens
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}
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| image =Powelliphanta annectens DOC 2007.jpg
| image_caption = Powelliphanta annectens
| status = NC
| status_system = NZTCS
| status_ref = {{cite report|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/science-and-technical/nztcs42entire.pdf|last1=Walker|first1=Kath|last2=Walton|first2=Kerry|last3=Edwards|first3=Eric|last4=Hitchmough|first4=Rod|last5=Payton|first5=Ian|last6=Barker|first6=Gary|last7=Michel|first7=Pascale|editor-last=Todd|editor-first=Amanda|display-authors=1|title=Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous terrestrial Gastropoda (slugs and snails)|series=Part 3. Rhytididae (carnivorous snails), 2022|publisher=New Zealand Department of Conservation|page=26|isbn=978-1-7385800-7-1|issn=2324-1713|date=February 2024|access-date=27 September 2024}}
| genus = Powelliphanta
| species = annectens
| authority = Powell, 1936
}}
Powelliphanta annectens is one of the amber snails, an air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. It is a protected species with very limited distribution.
Distribution
This species occurs in the northern parts of the South Island of New Zealand.Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}} The only individuals have been found between {{convert|2,000|and|2,500|ft}} from the Ōpārara River near Karamea, to Gunner Downs south of the Heaphy River.{{cite web|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-animals/invertebrates/004-snails-powelliphanta-i.pdf|title=Carnivorous land snails - Powelliphanta|publisher=NZ Department of Conservation|accessdate=2013-09-17|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021232017/http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/conservation/native-animals/invertebrates/004-snails-powelliphanta-i.pdf|archivedate=2012-10-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.rodmorris.co.nz/keyword/powelliphanta/|title=Rod Morris Nature Photography with Keywords: powelliphanta|website=www.rodmorris.co.nz|access-date=2016-05-20}}
Life cycle
The shape of the eggs of this species is oval. They are seldom constant in dimensions, varying from {{convert|9|×|8|mm}} to {{convert|9|×|8.5|mm}}.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 [http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_75/rsnz_75_01_001590.html 54]-57.
References
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Category:Gastropods described in 1936
Category:Taxa named by Arthur William Baden Powell
Category:Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Category:Endemic molluscs of New Zealand
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