Placostylus hongii
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | P. hongii
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| Placostylus hongii Lesson, 1830
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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] from short sequence molecular phylogeny and shell dimensions, that there are no subspecies 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 Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b 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.