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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
BOTHRIEMBRYONTIDAE: PLACOSTYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Orthalicoidei (Infraorder)
> Orthalicoidea (Superfamily)
> Bothriembryontidae (Family)
> Placostylinae (Subfamily)
> Basileostylus (Genus)
> bollonsi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Placostylus (Basileostylus) Haas, 1935
Images: Basileostylus bollonsi Suter, 1908
From the Three Kings Islands. 93mm. Photographed from an old collection, pre 1970's
A large herbivorous Land Snail from Three Kings Islands, NZ. © rights reserved
From Three Kings Islands, NZ. © rights reserved
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
BOTHRIEMBRYONTIDAE: PLACOSTYLINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Eupulmonata (Superorder)
> Stylommatophora (Order)
> Helicina (Suborder)
> Orthalicoidei (Infraorder)
> Orthalicoidea (Superfamily)
> Bothriembryontidae (Family)
> Placostylinae (Subfamily)
> Basileostylus (Genus)
> bollonsi (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Placostylus (Basileostylus) Haas, 1935
Details: Basileostylus bollonsi Suter, 1908
Size/Grows to:
Height 100mm, Width 39mm
Distribution:
Three Kings Islands
Notes:
Flax Snail Pupuharakeke, Land, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Buckley, T.R., Stringer, I., Gleeson, D., Howitt, R., Attanayake, D., Parrish, R., Sherley, G.H., 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) (p.55)
  • Brook, F.J. 2003 Conservation status of the giant endemic landsnail Placostylus bollonsi on Three Kings Islands, DOC Science Internal Series, 140 (p.5)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.349)
  • Climo, F.M. 1973 The Systematics, Biology and Zoogeography of the land snail fauna of Great Island, Three Kings Group, New Zealand, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3(4) (p.583)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1948 Land Mollusca of the Three Kings Islands, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 3 (p.288)
  • Suter, H. 1908 A new Placostylus from New Zealand., Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 40 (p.341) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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