page_title: Schizoglossa novoseelandica
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Schizoglossa novoseelandica / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of dorsal view of alcohol preserved specimen of Schizoglossa novoseelandica.
context_page_description: Schizoglossa novoseelandica is a predatory species of air-breathing land slug or semi-slug, a terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae. It is the type species of the genus Schizoglossa and is found only in New Zealand. The survival of this species is not threatened; it is not listed in the 2009 IUCN Red List nor is it in the 2005 New Zealand Threat Classification System lists.
context_section_description: Schizoglossa novoseelandica novoseelandica is found on the North Island, New Zealand. Localities include Kakepuku mountain in the Waikato, Wainuiomata in the Wellington Region, Toko near Stratford, Cape Egmont, and Mount Messenger Conservation Area in Taranaki, Bushy Park and Hunterville in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region, Whangarei Heads in Northland, Ohingaiti, the Kaimai Ranges between Waikato and the Bay of Plenty, and the Mount Tongariro/Lake Taupo area.
  Subfossil and very large shells (that were believed to belong to this species in 1913) were found in cave near Tahora, Manawatu-Whanganui and in Mangaone Cave near Nuhaka in Hawke's Bay Region.
caption: Dorsal view of an alcohol preserved specimen (tentacles are larger in living specimens.)
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