- New Zealand flax snail
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New Zealand flax snail Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group SigmurethraSuperfamily: Orthalicoidea Family: Placostylidae Genus: Placostylus Species: P. bollonsi Binomial name Placostylus bollonsi
Suter, 1908The New Zealand flax snail or pupuharakeke, scientific name Placostylus bollonsi, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Placostylidae, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands group off the northern tip of New Zealand's North Island.
Subspecies
A number of subspecies are recognised; Placostylus bollonsi arbutus and P. b. bollonsi are classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Nationally Endangered, while Placostylus bollonsi caperatus is classified as Nationally Critical.[2]
Buckley et al. (2011)[3] found based on molecular phylogeny research and shell morphology research, that there are no susbspecies of Placostylus bollonsi.[3]
References
- ^ G. Sherley (1996). "Placostylus bollonsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/17445. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ^ "New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2002 - Terrestial (sic) invertebrate - part one". New Zealand Department of Conservation. 2002. http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage.aspx?id=39593. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ^ a b Buckley T. R., Stringer I., Gleeson D., Howitt R., Attanayake D., Parrish R., Sherley G. & Rohan M. (2011). "A revision of the New Zealand Placostylus land snails using mitochondrial DNA and shell morphometric analyses, with implications for conservation". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38(1): 55-81. doi:10.1080/03014223.2010.527997.
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