Placocharis

Placocharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]

Placocharis
Shell of Placocharis macgillivrayi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Synonyms[1]
  • Acrostylus Clench, 1935 (invalid: junior homonymy of Acrostylus Cossmann, 1896; Malaitella Clench, 1941 is a replacement name)
  • Malaitella Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)
  • Placostylus (Acrostylus) Clench, 1935 (invalid: junior homonym of Acrostylus Cossmann, 1896; Malaitella Clench, 1941 is a replacement name)
  • Placostylus (Malaitella) Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)
  • Placostylus (Placocharis) Pilsbry, 1900 (original rank)

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. 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
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