''Placocharis'' are a
genus
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of very large, air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial pulmonate
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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 th ...
.
[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
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Placocharis acutus''
Clench, 1935
* ''
Placocharis founaki''
(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)
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Placocharis guppyi''
(E. A. Smith, 1892)
* ''
Placocharis kreftii
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. A ...
''
(Cox, 1872)
* ''
Placocharis macfarlandi''
(Brazier, 1876)
* ''
Placocharis macgillivrayi''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Placocharis malaitensis''
(Clench, 1941)
* ''
Placocharis manni''
(Clapp, 1923)
* ''
Placocharis ophir
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. A ...
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(Clench, 1941)
* ''
Placocharis palmarum
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. A ...
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(Mousson, 1869)
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Placocharis paravicinianus
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. A ...
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(B. Rensch, 1934)
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Placocharis strangei
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. A ...
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(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* ''
Placocharis stutchburyi
''Placocharis'' are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae
Bothriembryontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, ter ...
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(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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Gastropod genera
Clench, W. J. (1941). The land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21