Story: Snails and slugs

Flax snail

This flax snail is on a branch on the Mokohinau Islands. Snail hatchlings spend an unknown period living in trees and shrubs, then move down on to the forest floor.

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Paddy Ryan, Snails and slugs – Flax snails, giant snails and veined slugs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12858/flax-snail (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paddy Ryan, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Huriana Collecutt
29 March 2016

I've noticed the colour of the foot for Kauri snails is sometimes black or grey, is this a difference between paryphanta species and powelliiphanta species?