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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)
> Maoristylus (Genus)
> hongii (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bulimus (Placostylus) H. Beck, 1837
=Placostylus (Euplacostylus) Crosse, 1875
=Placostylus (Maoristylus) Haas, 1935
Synonymised Names:
=Bulimus hongii Lesson, 1830
=Bulimus novoseelandicus L. Pfeiffer, 1861
=Placostylus (Maoristylus) hongii (Lesson, 1830)
Images: Maoristylus hongii (Lesson, 1830)
From coastal situations on the Northland East Coast. 74mm. Photographed from an old collection, pre 1970's
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)
> Maoristylus (Genus)
> hongii (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Bulimus (Placostylus) H. Beck, 1837
=Placostylus (Euplacostylus) Crosse, 1875
=Placostylus (Maoristylus) Haas, 1935
Synonymised Names:
=Bulimus hongii Lesson, 1830
=Bulimus novoseelandicus L. Pfeiffer, 1861
=Placostylus (Maoristylus) hongii (Lesson, 1830)
Details: Maoristylus hongii (Lesson, 1830)
Size/Grows to:
Height 85mm, Width 37mm
Distribution:
Northland, from Whangaroa to Whangarei Heads
Geographical Range:
L.N.
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)
  • Choat, J.H., Schiel, D.R. 1980 Population structure of Placostylus hongii (Gastropoda: Paryphantidae) on the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 7(2) (p.199)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.350)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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