''Placocharis'' are a
genus
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of very large, air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the subfamily
Placostylinae of the
family
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Bothriembryontidae
Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
Taxonomy
This family has been named Placostylidae and had no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of ...
.
[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]
Species
* ''
Placocharis acutus''
Clench, 1935
* ''
Placocharis founaki''
(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)
* ''
Placocharis guppyi''
(E. A. Smith, 1892)
* ''
Placocharis kreftii''
(Cox, 1872)
* ''
Placocharis macfarlandi
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family (biology), family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). Mollus ...
''
(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
* 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
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Clench, W. J. (1941). The land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21
Gastropod genera