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Tiny land snail

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Tiny land snail

Phrixgnathus sciadium is a tiny native land snail, about 5 millimetres wide, from Dargaville, Northland.

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New Zealand Mollusca

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Paddy Ryan, Snails and slugs – New Zealand land molluscs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12853/tiny-land-snail (accessed 6 June 2026).

Story by Paddy Ryan, published 1 March 2009.