Snail Egg, Hochstetter's Land

Description
A Hochstetter Land Snail egg contained in a glass tube with white plastic screw top lid. Egg is white in colour and has a white label inside with printed black text that reads "Egg of P.hochstetteri / hochstetteri". Situated in a cardboard box with a white label with black printed text that reads "P. hochstetteri hochstetteri (Pfeiffer, 1862) / In bush halfway down road to Canaan". A96.872-A96.876 are also contained in this box.
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Classification
Gastropoda (Univalves)/Mollusca (Shellfish)/Invertebrates/Animals/T&E For Science & Technology
Credit line
This species is found in the North Western of South Island. It is a large carnivorous snail and eats earthworms, insects and other snail. Not much information is known about this species.
Accession number
A96.872
Collection type
Natural Sciences

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