Placostylus porphyrostomus

Placostylus porphyrostomus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily: Placostylinae
Genus: Placostylus
Species: P. porphyrostomus
Binomial name
Placostylus porphyrostomus
Pfeiffer, 1851

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

References

  1. Bouchet P. (1996). Placostylus porphyrostomus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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