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Kōrero: Snails and slugs

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

by Andrew Spurgeon

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paddy Ryan, Snails and slugs – New Zealand land molluscs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12853/tiny-land-snail (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paddy Ryan, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.