Placocharis

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

Placocharis
Shell of Placocharis macgillivrayi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Bothriembryontidae
Genus:	Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900
Type species
Bulimus macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms
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)

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

• 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

• 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

• Clench, W. J. (1941). The land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21