Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae
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| Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae Powell, 1947 |
Placostylus ambagiosus lesleyae was 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 is extinct.
[edit] Distribution
This land snail was endemic to the Cape Reinga area of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand.
[edit] Shell description
The subspecies appears to have been directly ancestral to Placostylus ambagiosus paraspiritus. It has the same rounded outer lip callus, but it has a stronger development of the two outer-lip processes, as well as the basal lip tubercle.
The shell height is up to 83 mm, and width up to 36 mm.
[edit] References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
