Newcombia canaliculata is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae.

The Newcombia genus is divided into three series:[2] These mollusks have been found in the Hawaiian Archipelago, on Halawa, Molokai and Wailau, Maui.

[5] Newcombia canaliculata has a long, sinistral, thin textured spiral shell, made up of calcium carbonate that ranges in varieties of brown tones.

What makes the Newcombia canaliculata so unique is its thin spiral ribbing coiled around the shell.

[5] Additionally some snails may have zigzag patterns on a single whorl and oftentimes appear  “blurred.”[5] Newcombia canaliculata on the IUCN Red list as critically endangered.