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]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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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Distribution edit
This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands group off the northern tip of New Zealand's North Island.
Subspecies edit
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]
References edit
- ^ Sherley, G. (1996). "Placostylus bollonsi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T17445A7074297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T17445A7074297.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Basileostylus bollonsi (Suter, 1908). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863080 on 2022-01-22
- ^ "New Zealand Threat Classification System lists - 2002 - Terrestrial invertebrate - part one". New Zealand Department of Conservation. 2002. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ^ a b Buckley T. R., Stringer I., Gleeson D., Howitt R., Attanayake D., Parrish R., Sherley G. & Rohan M. (2011). "A revision of the New Zealand Placostylus land snails using mitochondrial DNA and shell morphometric analyses, with implications for conservation". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38(1): 55-81. doi:10.1080/03014223.2010.527997.
- Suter, H. (1908). A new Placostylus from New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 40: 340-343, pl. 25.
- Powell, A. W. B. (1948). "Land Mollusca of the Three Kings Islands". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 3: 273–290. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906016. Wikidata Q58676663.