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Placostylus fibratus

Summary

Placostylus fibratus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia.

Placostylus fibratus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bothriembryontidae
Subfamily: Placostylinae
Genus: Placostylus
Species:
P. fibratus
Binomial name
Placostylus fibratus
Martyn, 1789
Synonyms
  • Auricula aurantiaca Schumacher, 1817
  • Bulimus bootis Menke, 1828
  • Bulimus bovinus Bruguière, 1792
  • Bulimus bulbulus Gassies, 1871
  • Ellobium australe Röding, 1798
  • Helix (Cochlogena) aurisbovinus Férussac, 1821
  • Helix aurismalchi O. F. Müller, 1774 (name suppressed by ICZN Opinion 1662)
  • Limax fibratus Martyn, 1784 (original combination)
  • Voluta elongata [Lightfoot], 1786 (objective synonym and placed on Official Index by ICZN 1662)
Subspecies
  • Placostylus fibratus alexander (Crosse, 1855)
  • Placostylus fibratus fibratus (Martyn, 1784)
  • Placostylus fibratus goroensis (Souverbie, 1870)
  • Placostylus fibratus guestieri (Gassies, 1869)
  • Placostylus fibratus ouveanus (Mousson, 1869)
  • Placostylus fibratus souvillei (Morelet, 1857)
Placostylus fibratus cooked with garlic butter and served at a restaurant on Ile des Pins.

Known locally as bulime, the snails are considered a highly prized delicacy on Ile des Pins and are locally farmed to ensure supply.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (1996). "Placostylus fibratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T17451A7081717. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17451A7081717.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Le bulime, ou escargot terrestre de l'île des Pins : Conservation de Placostylus fibratus, espèce endémique et menacée de Nouvelle-Calédonie". 2002.
  • 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

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  • Martyn T. (1784-1787). The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London, published by the author. 4 vols. 40 pp., 80 pls
  • Martyn T. (1784-1787). The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London, published by the author. 4 vols. 40 pp., 80 pls.
  • Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana.
  • Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
  • Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls.