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Placostylus fibratus

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = Placostylus fibratus Martyn, 1789 (4192730777).jpg

| status = VU | status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bouchet, P. |date=1996 |title=Placostylus fibratus |volume=1996 |page=e.T17451A7081717 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17451A7081717.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| taxon = Placostylus fibratus

| authority = Martyn, 1789

| synonyms =

  • Auricula aurantiaca Schumacher, 1817
  • Bulimus bootis Menke, 1828
  • Bulimus bovinus Bruguière, 1792
  • Bulimus bulbulus Gassies, 1871
  • Ellobium australe Röding, 1798
  • Helix (Cochlogena) aurisbovinus Férussac, 1821
  • Helix aurismalchi O. F. Müller, 1774 (name suppressed by ICZN Opinion 1662)
  • Limax fibratus Martyn, 1784 (original combination)
  • Voluta elongata [Lightfoot], 1786 (objective synonym and placed on Official Index by ICZN 1662)

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Placostylus fibratus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia.

;Subspecies:

  • Placostylus fibratus alexander (Crosse, 1855)
  • Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784)
  • Placostylus fibratus goroensis (Souverbie, 1870)
  • Placostylus fibratus guestieri (Gassies, 1869)
  • Placostylus fibratus ouveanus (Mousson, 1869)
  • Placostylus fibratus souvillei (Morelet, 1857)

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Known locally as bulime, the snails are considered a highly prized delicacy on Ile des Pins and are locally farmed to ensure supply.{{Cite web|url=http://agritrop.cirad.fr/511940/|title = Le bulime, ou escargot terrestre de l'île des Pins : Conservation de Placostylus fibratus, espèce endémique et menacée de Nouvelle-Calédonie|year = 2002}}

References

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  • 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

External links

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  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41889680 Martyn T. (1784-1787). The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London, published by the author. 4 vols. 40 pp., 80 pls]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41889680 Martyn T. (1784-1787). The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London, published by the author. 4 vols. 40 pp., 80 pls.]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12893715 Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana.]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp]
  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.]

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fibratus

Category:Endemic fauna of New Caledonia

Category:Gastropods described in 1789

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Taxa named by Thomas Martyn (zoologist)

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