Placostylus cuniculinsulae
Placostylus cuniculinsulae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Subfamily: | Placostylinae |
Genus: | Placostylus |
Species: | †P. cuniculinsulae |
Binomial name | |
†Placostylus cuniculinsulae J. C. Cox, 1872[2] | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Bulimus (Placostylus) cuniculinsulae Cox, 1872 |
†Placostylus cuniculinsulae was a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species was endemic to Lord Howe Island,[3][2] Australia. It is now extinct.[1]
References
- 1 2 Ponder W. F. (1996). Placostylus cuniculinsulae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- 1 2 3 Cox J. C. (1872). "Descriptions of new Land-Shells from Australia and the South-Sea Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1872: 18-23. page 19, plate 4, figure 3.
- ↑ Solem A. (1959). "Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides". Fieldiana 43(1): page 131.
Further reading
- Iredale T. (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist 10(3): 299-334, plates 17-20.
- description in Latin language
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