Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae

Taxobox
name = "Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae"


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status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Bulimulidae
genus = "Placostylus"
species = "P. ambagiosus"
subspecies = "P. ambagiosus lesleyae"
trinomial = "Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae"
trinomial_authority = Powell, 1947

"Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae" was a subspecies of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae, the bulimulus snails and their allies.

This subspecies is extinct.

Distribution

This land snail was endemic to the Cape Reinga area of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand.

hell description

The subspecies appears to have been directly ancestral to "Placostylus ambagiosus paraspiritus". It has the same rounded outer lip callus, but it has a stronger development of the two outer-lip processes, as well as the basal lip tubercle.

The shell height is up to 83 mm, and width up to 36 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1