Egg, Kauri Snail

Description
A Kauri Snail Egg, white in colour and contained in a glass tube with a cork top. Cotton wool lines the top and bottom to protect the egg. A white label with black printed text inside the tube reads "Egg of P. busbyi busbyi" Situated in a small rectangular cardboard box with a white label with black printed text that reads "Paryphanta busbyi busbyi (Gray, 1840) / In roadside watertable, Mangamuka Ra." A96.832 - 838 are also contained in this box.
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Classification
Gastropoda (Univalves)/Mollusca (Shellfish)/Invertebrates/Animals/T&E For Science & Technology
Credit line
Kauri snails are carnivorous land snails. They are found in Northland. This sub-species is the more widespread of the two sub-species. They eat mainly earthworms but also insects, and other snails. They are threatened by habitat destruction and predation.
Accession number
A96.836
Collection type
Natural Sciences

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