title: Powelliphanta "Owen"
text: # Powelliphanta "Owen"
  
  This is a yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species, provisionally known as Powelliphanta sp. from Mount Owen. This is one of the amber snails. It is an undescribed species of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
  
  ## Conservation status
  
  Powelliphanta sp. from Mount Owen is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as Nationally Endangered.
  
  