Biology:Placocharis
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
| Placocharis | |
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| Shell of Placocharis macgillivrayi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Genus: | Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855 | |
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Placocharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]
Species
- Placocharis acutus Clench, 1935
- Placocharis founaki (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)
- Placocharis guppyi (E. A. Smith, 1892)
- Placocharis kreftii (Cox, 1872)
- Placocharis macfarlandi (Brazier, 1876)
- Placocharis macgillivrayi (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Placocharis malaitensis (Clench, 1941)
- Placocharis manni (Clapp, 1923)
- Placocharis ophir (Clench, 1941)
- Placocharis palmarum (Mousson, 1869)
- Placocharis paravicinianus (B. Rensch, 1934)
- Placocharis strangei (L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
- Placocharis stutchburyi (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863054 on 2022-01-22
- 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., 2010 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae
External links
- Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. pp 1-253, pls 1-72. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences.
- Clench, W. J. (1935). A new subgenus and a new species of Placostylus from the Solomon Islands. Nautilus. 48(4): 126
Wikidata ☰ Q27992043 entry
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