Placocharis

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

Species

• Placocharis acutus <small>Clench, 1935</small>
• Placocharis founaki <small>(Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847)</small>
• Placocharis guppyi <small>(E. A. Smith, 1892)</small>
• Placocharis kreftii <small>(Cox, 1872)</small>
• Placocharis macfarlandi <small>(Brazier, 1876)</small>
• Placocharis macgillivrayi <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
• Placocharis malaitensis <small>(Clench, 1941)</small>
• Placocharis manni <small>(Clapp, 1923)</small>
• Placocharis ophir <small>(Clench, 1941)</small>
• Placocharis palmarum <small>(Mousson, 1869)</small>
• Placocharis paravicinianus <small>(B. Rensch, 1934)</small>
• Placocharis strangei <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)</small>
• Placocharis stutchburyi <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1860)</small>

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