Placocharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Placocharis Pilsbry, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=863054 on 2022-01-22
Species Placocharis acutus Clench, 1935 Placocharis founaki (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1847) Placocharis guppyi (E. A. Smith, 1892) Placocharis kreftii (Cox, 1872) Placocharis macfarlandi (Brazier, 1876) Placocharis macgillivrayi (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) Placocharis malaitensis (Clench, 1941) Placocharis manni (Clapp, 1923) Placocharis ophir (Clench, 1941) Placocharis palmarum (Mousson, 1869) Placocharis paravicinianus (B. Rensch, 1934) Placocharis strangei (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) Placocharis stutchburyi (L. Pfeiffer, 1860)
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., 2010 Land snails on the Solomon Islands. Volume 1. Placostylidae
External links
Pilsbry, H. A. (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 13: Australasian Bulimulidae: Bothriembryon, Placostylus. Helicidae: Amphidromus. pp 1-253, pls 1-72. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. Clench, W. J. (1935). A new subgenus and a new species of Placostylus from the Solomon Islands. Nautilus. 48(4): 126
Clench, W. J. (1941). The land Mollusca of the Solomon Islands (Succineidae, Bulimulidae and Partulidae). American Museum Novitates. 1129: 1-21