Placostylus eddystonensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placostylus eddystonensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1313519 on 2022-01-22
Subspecies: Placostylus eddystonensis bavayi (Crosse & Marie, 1868) Placostylus eddystonensis eddystonensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) Placostylus eddystonensis savesi Crosse, 1886
Subspecies This species is endemic to New Caledonia.
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.G.J. (2010). Land Snails on the Solomon Islands. Vol. I: Placostylidae. Ancona: L'Informatore Piceno. 132 pp., 12 pls.
External links
Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Description of nine new species of land-shells, in the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23(284): 7–9