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Placostylus porphyrostomus
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily:	Placostylinae
Genus:	Placostylus
Species:	P. porphyrostomus
Binomial name
Placostylus porphyrostomus Pfeiffer, 1851
Synonyms
Bulimus porphyrostomus L. Pfeiffer, 1853

Placostylus porphyrostomus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae.

Subspecies

• Placostylus porphyrostomus mariei (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1867)
• Placostylus porphyrostomus monackensis (Crosse, 1888)
• Placostylus porphyrostomus porphyrostomus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Placostylus porphyrostomus smithii Kobelt, 1891

Distribution

This species is endemic to New Caledonia.

References

1. Bouchet, P. (1996). "Placostylus porphyrostomus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T17452A7082517. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17452A7082517.en. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placostylus porphyrostomus (L. Pfeiffer, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1430192 on 2022-01-23

• 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

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1853). Description of fifty-four new species of Helicea, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 252-256 [16 July 1853]; 257-263

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• IUCN Red List vulnerable species
• Placostylus
• Endemic fauna of New Caledonia
• Gastropods described in 1851
• Orthalicoidea stubs