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Placostylus hongii

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| image = Placostylus hongii (MNHN-IM-2000-28168) 001.jpeg

| image_caption = Shell of Placostylus hongii (syntype at MNHN, Paris)

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| status_ref = Sherley G. (1996). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17446/0 Placostylus hongii]. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 5 April 2011.

|taxon = Placostylus hongii

|authority = Lesson, 1830

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  • Bulimus hongii Lesson, 1830
  • Bulimus novoseelandicus L. Pfeiffer, 1861
  • Placostylus (Maoristylus) hongii (Lesson, 1830)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 75 mm.

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Distribution

This species is endemic and occurs in New Zealand.Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}.

Conservation status

Placostylus hongii is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as Range Restricted.[http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage.aspx?id=39593 New Zealand Department of Conservation Threatened Species Classification] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015214354/http://doc.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage.aspx?id=39593 |date=15 October 2008 }}

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

References

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

External links

  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/119040 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.]

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hongii

Category:Gastropods described in 1830

Category:Taxa named by René Lesson

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