Basileostylus bollonsi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bothriembryontidae |
Subfamily: | Placostylinae |
Genus: | Basileostylus |
Species: | B. bollonsi
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Binomial name | |
Basileostylus bollonsi (Suter, 1908)
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Basileostylus bollonsi , common name the New Zealand flax snail or pupuharakeke, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bothriembryontidae. [2]
This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands group off the northern tip of New Zealand's North Island.
A number of subspecies were recognised; Placostylus bollonsi arbutus and P. b. bollonsi are classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being Nationally Endangered, while Placostylus bollonsi caperatus is classified as Nationally Critical.[3]
Buckley et al. (2011)[4] found based on molecular phylogeny research and shell morphology research, that there are no subspecies of Placostylus bollonsi.[4]