Placostylus ambagiosus pandora

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Placostylus ambagiosus pandora
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Placostylus
Species: P. ambagiosus
Subspecies: P. ambagiosus pandora
Trinomial name
Placostylus ambagiosus pandora
Powell, 1951

Placostylus ambagiosus pandora 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 is critically endangered.

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[edit] Distribution

This land snail is endemic to the Spirits Bay area of Northland in the North Island of New Zealand. It is found in rocky scree under cover of Muehlenbeckia and Phormium (flax), in a small forest remnant, containing Corynocarpus laevigatus (karaka) trees.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is of moderate size, with a very dark reddish-brown interior, ochraceous-salmon rounded lip, and deep reddish within the aperture. The apertural processes are confined to a single strong tubercle on the basal lip.

The shell height is up to 71 mm, and width up to 31 mm.

[edit] Conservation status

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

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