title: Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes"
text: # Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes"
  
  This is a yet-unnamed Powelliphanta species, provisionally known as Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes". 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. The area above the bush line on Mount Murchison in the Braeburn Range is one of three isolated habitats for this species.
  
  ## Conservation status
  
  Powelliphanta "Nelson Lakes" is classified as Range Restricted by the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
  
  