Placostylus cuniculinsulae

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]

Placostylus cuniculinsulae
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P. cuniculinsulae
Binomial name
Placostylus cuniculinsulae
Synonyms[2]

Bulimus (Placostylus) cuniculinsulae Cox, 1872

References

  1. Ponder W. F. (1996). Placostylus cuniculinsulae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  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.
  3. Solem A. (1959). "Systematics of the land and fresh-water mollusca of the New Hebrides". Fieldiana 43(1): page 131.

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