New Zealand flax snail
| New Zealand flax snail | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
| Subfamily: | Placostylinae |
| Genus: | Placostylus |
| Species: | P. bollonsi |
| Binomial name | |
| Placostylus bollonsi Suter, 1908 | |
The 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 Bothriembryontidae.
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 subspecies 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. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ↑ "New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2002 - Terrestial (sic) invertebrate - part one". New Zealand Department of Conservation. 2002. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- 1 2 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.