Placostylus hongii

Placostylus hongii is a species of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.

Placostylus hongii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:
Placostylinae
Genus:
Placostylus
Species:
P. hongii
Binomial name
Placostylus hongii
Lesson, 1830

Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand.[2]

Conservation status

Placostylus hongii is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as Range Restricted.[3]

Buckley et al. (2011)[4] from short sequence molecular phylogeny and shell dimensions, that there are no subspecies of Placostylus hongii.[4]

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References
  1. Sherley G. (1996). Placostylus hongii. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 5 April 2011.
  2. Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
  3. New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Buckley T. R., Stringer I., Gleeson D., Howitt R., Attanayake D., Parrish R., Sherley G. & Rohan M. (2011). "A revision of the New Zealand Placostylus land snails using mitochondrial DNA and shell morphometric analyses, with implications for conservation". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38(1): 55-81. doi:10.1080/03014223.2010.527997.


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