Placostylus ambagiosus spiritus

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Placostylus ambagiosus spiritus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Placostylus
Species: P. ambagiosus spiritus
Trinomial name
Placostylus ambagiosus spiritus
Powell, 1947

Placostylus ambagiosus spiritus is an extinct large terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae, endemic to the Spirits Bay area of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand.

The shell is small to moderate in size, somewhat resembling Placostylus ambagiosus worthyi but having more developed apertural processes, particularly the basal lip tubercle.

Height is up to 79 mm, and width up to 34 mm.

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