Placocharis

Genus of gastropods

Placocharis

Shell of Placocharis macgillivrayi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific 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)

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

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

^ ^a ^b 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

External links

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Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. pp 1-253, pls 1-72. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences.
Clench, W. J. (1935). A new subgenus and a new species of Placostylus from the Solomon Islands. Nautilus. 48(4): 126