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

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

Conservation status

Powelliphanta "Urewera" is classified in the New Zealand Threat Classification System as being in Serious Decline.

References

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

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