Placostylus cuniculinsulae

Placostylus cuniculinsulae
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. 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. 1 2 Ponder W. F. (1996). Placostylus cuniculinsulae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. 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.
  3. Solem A. (1959). "Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides". Fieldiana 43(1): page 131.

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