Biology:Placostylus cuniculinsulae
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Placostylus cuniculinsulae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Subfamily: | Placostylinae
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| Species: | †P. cuniculinsulae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Placostylus cuniculinsulae J. C. Cox, 1872[2]
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ponder W. F. (1996). Placostylus cuniculinsulae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.
- ↑ Solem A. (1959). "Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides". Fieldiana 43(1): page 131.
Further reading
- Iredale T. (1944). "The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island". Australian Zoologist 10(3): 299-334, plates 17-20.
- description in Latin language
Wikidata ☰ Q5494203 entry
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