Planorbis kahuica is a species of minute, air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids. All planorbids have sinistral shells Etymology The species name kahuica is derived from "Kahu", a Māori personal name, and was part of the tribal name of the principal Māori tribe in the Hawke's Bay district of New Zealand. Description The shell is sinistral and planispiral. References Planorbidae Gastropods described in 1931 Freshwater molluscs of Oceania Taxa named by Harold John Finlay