Placostylus ambagiosus consobrinus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Placostylus ambagiosus consobrinus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Placostylus
Species: P. ambagiosus
Subspecies: P. ambagiosus consobrinus
Trinomial name
Placostylus ambagiosus consobrinus
Powell, 1938

Placostylus ambagiosus consobrinus is a subspecies of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae, the bulimulus snails and their allies.

This subspecies of large land snail is critically endangered.

Contents

[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to Cape Maria van Diemen in Northland in the North Island of New Zealand. It is found in a similar area to Placostylus ambagiosus worthyi, but is of more recent occurrence.

[edit] Habitat

This subspecies survives in a few places in flax clumps.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is of distinctive shape, the spire being twice the height of the aperture, which is short and D-shaped. The basal lip, columellar and parietal processes are the best developed.

The shell height is up to 86 mm, and the width up to 37 mm.

[edit] Conservation status

Placostylus ambagiosus consobrinus is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Nationally Critical.

[edit] References