Placostylus eddystonensis

Placostylus eddystonensis
Shell of Placostylus eddystonensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Placostylus
Species:	P. eddystonensis
Binomial name
Placostylus eddystonensis Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms
Bulimus eddystonensis L. Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination) Placostylus hienguensis Crosse, 1871 (junior synonym)

Placostylus eddystonensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae. ^[2]

Subspecies:

• Placostylus eddystonensis bavayi (Crosse & Marie, 1868)
• Placostylus eddystonensis eddystonensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
• Placostylus eddystonensis savesi Crosse, 1886

Subspecies[]

This species is endemic to New Caledonia.

References[]

• Neubert, E., Chérel-Mora C. & Bouchet P. (2009). Polytypy, clines, and fragmentation: The bulimes of New Caledonia revisited (Pulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Placostylidae). In P. Grancolas (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 198: 37-131.
• Delsaerdt, A.G.J. (2010). Land Snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. I: Placostylidae. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 132 pp., 12 pls.

External links[]

• Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Description of nine new species of land-shells, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23(284): 7–9

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