Critically Endangered
Rhytida oconnori
Rhytida oconnori
Rhytida oconnori is a land snail in the family Rhytididae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to New Zealand.
The land snail
Rhytida oconnori is a land snail in the family Rhytididae (order Stylommatophora).
Range and habitat
The preferred habitat for Rhytididae in forests is under fern or leaf litter or in damp places under rocks. Rhytida oconnori is found only at the top of the South Island in the Abel Tasman National Park south east of Tākaka, and at the Punipaua Creek near the Paturau River west of Collingwood in Golden Bay. It is found in a few places in the north of the South Island in New Zealand.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
Rhytida oconnori is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Rhytida oconnori, Wikidata item Q3077077. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
