Powelliphanta patrickensis

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| 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}}

| taxon = Powelliphanta patrickensis

| authority = Powell, 1949

| synonyms = * Powelliphanta rossiana patrickensis Powell, 1949

  • Powelliphanta "patrickensis"

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Powelliphanta patrickensis is a species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Formerly, it was considered as a subspecies of Powelliphanta rossiana.

Distribution

This species occurs only on the Denniston-Stockton Plateau on the South Island of New Zealand.{{cite book |author1-link=Baden Powell (malacologist) |last1=Powell |first1=A. W. B. |title=New Zealand Mollusca |publisher=William Collins Publishers Ltd |location=Auckland |year=1979 |isbn=0-00-216906-1}}

Conservation status

Powelliphanta patrickensis is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Nationally Critical. The population is threatened by mining, roading, and introduced predators such as thrushes, rats and possums.{{cite book |publisher=Department of Conservation |isbn=978-0-478-22418-4 |last=Walker |first=Kath |title=Recovery plans for Powelliphanta land snails, 2003-2013 |location=Wellington |year=2003 |url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSRP49a.pdf |pages=133–135 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410201743/http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/TSRP49a.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-10}}

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