Placostylus hongii
| Placostylus hongii | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Subfamily: | Placostylinae |
| Genus: | Placostylus |
| Species: | P. hongii |
| Binomial name | |
| Placostylus hongii Lesson, 1830 | |
Placostylus hongii is a species of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.
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] found based on molecular phylogeny research and shell morphology research, that there are no susbspecies of Placostylus hongii.[4]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- ↑ New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification
- 1 2 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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