Planorbis kahuica
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| Species: | P. kahuica
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Planorbis kahuica is a species of minute, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All planorbids have sinistral shells
Etymology[edit]
The species name kahuica is derived from "Kahu", a Māori personal name, and was part of the tribal name of the principal Māori tribe in the Hawke's Bay district of New Zealand.[2]
Description[edit]
The shell is sinistral and planispiral.
References[edit]
- ^ Finlay H. J. & Laws C. R. (23 May 1931). "A Second Species of Planorbis from New Zealand". Trans. N.Z. Inst. 62(1931-32): 23-25.
- ^ Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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