Placostylus hongii

Placostylus hongii
Shell of Placostylus hongii (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:	Placostylinae
Genus:	Placostylus
Species:	P. hongii
Binomial name
Placostylus hongii Lesson, 1830
Synonyms
Bulimus hongii Lesson, 1830 Bulimus novoseelandicus L. Pfeiffer, 1861 Placostylus (Maoristylus) hongii (Lesson, 1830)

Placostylus hongii is a species of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae.[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 75 mm.

Distribution

This species is endemic and occurs in New Zealand.[3]

Conservation status

Placostylus hongii is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as Range Restricted.[4]

Buckley et al. (2011)[5] from short sequence molecular phylogeny and shell dimensions, that there are no subspecies of Placostylus hongii.[5]

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. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placostylus hongii (Lesson, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=832555 on 2022-01-23
3. Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
4. New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification Archived 15 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
5. 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.

• Pfeiffer, L. (1861). Diagnosen einiger Landschnecken von Neuseeland. Malakozoologische Blätter, 8: 146–150. Cassel.

External links

• Lesson, R. P. (1830–1831). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, 2(1): 1–471 [pp. 1–24 (1830), 25–471 (1831)] Paris: Arthus Bertrand.