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 * Powelliphanta Snails are known as Paryphanta Snails.**
 * In 1970's Paryphanta was changed to Kauri snail because they lived in the kauri trees.****The largest snails of the species are the Powelliphanta-Supreba-Prouseorum a French name as they can be in France.****The Powelliphanta-Superba-Prouseorum is found in New Zealand at Kahurangi National Park (KNP) in the north island of New Zealand.****The Powelliphanta snail is named after scientist Dr.A W D Powell (Scientist at Auckland Museum).The powelliphanta snail can grow up to 90mm across or the size of a mans fist. The Snails are unfortunately carnivores which means that they eat meat so if you go into the forest and sit there for a while you will probably find yourself getting eaten. Powelliphanta's eat Earthworms and they are known to eat slugs to. They are hermaphrodites meaning they can mate with other males in their specie every year. The female snail can lay up to 5-10 large eggs a year and each egg is 12-14 mm long.The egg shell is a bright pearly pink colour and has a smell so when the mum goes and finds food she can smell her eggs/egg. Powelliphanta snails are Nocturnal whick mean they sleep in day and come out at night.They live buried in a leaf or under a long log. Powelliphanta snails are prone to dehydration so they cant survive in dry conditions and are expected to be better and healthy in wet forests.**

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 * Powelliphanta snails are endangered because rats pigs hedgehogs blackbirds mice and possums are either stamping on them or eating them. in the DOC's survey it says that in 2005 there were 50 alive but in 2011 the powelliphanta snails have been breeding because 71 were alive.They surveyed in Hawkes Bay. Some humans don't realise what's living in the forests so they are cutting down trees of the forest just to make houses for people but powelliphanta snails have homes there too. The snails live in the Kauri trees in the Kauri Forest and the Kauri forests are nearly gone. But there is some protection for them. There shells come in handy because the blackbirds the mice and the rats can't get in so there is one advantage. Some snails people took and either ate them or killed them for their shells and this had once had an effect on the population size. Possums take 20 seconds to get into the shell to eat them but sometimes the possum can't even find them!!!. Snails cross the road so DOC told everybody to try and stop for them and they are that big people can see them clearly.Possums compete against other possums to try get the food. It's like you trying to get the most ice-cream off your brother. Powelliphanta snails can live in a feild but the unfortunate thing is that the cows or the horses stand on them.**

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Doc is being very kind and is helping Powelliphanta and Kauri snails in four different parts of New Zealand.Doc has fenced off areas for where snails can live in colonies. it is hard for doc to track them down because they are all scattered. Doc Making plan to help. tried to help in 1970's. been moved to different places trick possums. Poison 1080 helps keep possums away.

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