Powelliphanta "Egmont"
Conservation status
Range Restricted (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Rhytididae
Genus:	Powelliphanta
Species:	P. "Egmont"
Binomial name
Powelliphanta "Egmont"

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

Conservation status

Powelliphanta "Egmont" is classified as Range Restricted by the New Zealand Threat Classification System.

References

• Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
• New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification
• Department of Conservation Recovery Plans

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