Placostylus fibratus
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Placostylus fibratus | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Subfamily: | Placostylinae |
Genus: | Placostylus |
Species: | P. fibratus
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Binomial name | |
Placostylus fibratus Martyn, 1789
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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.
- 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)
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Ile_des_Pins_snails_cooked.jpg/300px-Ile_des_Pins_snails_cooked.jpg)
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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
External links[edit]
- 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.Error: "Q5462257" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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