Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes" | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Species: | Not yet described
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This is a yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species, provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes". 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. The area above the bush line on Mount Murchison in the Braeburn Range is one of three isolated habitats for this species.