Rhytida is a genus of medium-sized, air-breathing, predatory land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Rhytididae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Subfamily: | Rhytidinae |
| Genus: | Rhytida Martens, 1860 |
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This is the type genus of the family.
Distribution edit
This genus is endemic to New Zealand.[1]
Species edit
Species and subspecies recognised in the genus Rhytida are:[2]
- Rhytida australis Hutton, 1883 Stewart Island/Rakiura
- Rhytida citrina Hutton, 1883 South Island
- Rhytida greenwoodi
- Rhytida greenwoodi greenwoodi (Gray, 1950) North Island
- Rhytida greenwoodi webbi Powell, 1949 South Island
- Rhytida meesoni
- Rhytida meesoni meesoni Suter, 1891 South Island
- Rhytida meesoni perampla Powell, 1946 South Island
- Rhytida oconnori Powell, 1946 South Island
- Rhytida otagoensis Powell, 1930 South Island
- Rhytida patula Hutton, 1883 South Island
- Rhytida stephenensis Powell, 1930 Stephens Island, Cook Strait
Note that the species/subspecies status of some of the above taxa is unclear and differs between sources.
References edit
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ Checklist of New Zealand Mollusca
Further reading edit
Wikispecies has information related to Rhytida.
- Efford M. G. 1998 Distribution and status of native carnivorous land snails in the genera Wainuia and Rhytida. Science for Conservation 101: 1–47.
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