Placocharis

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Phylum:Mollusca
Suborder:Helicina
Placocharis
Shell of Placocharis macgillivrayi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Placocharis
Pilsbry, 1900
Type species
Bulimus macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms[1]
  • Acrostylus Clench, 1935 (invalid: junior homonymy of Acrostylus Cossmann, 1896; Malaitella Clench, 1941 is a replacement name)
  • Malaitella Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)
  • Placostylus (Acrostylus) Clench, 1935 (invalid: junior homonym of Acrostylus Cossmann, 1896; Malaitella Clench, 1941 is a replacement name)
  • Placostylus (Malaitella) Clench, 1941 (junior synonym)
  • Placostylus (Placocharis) Pilsbry, 1900 (original rank)

Placocharis are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Placostylinae of the family Bothriembryontidae.[1]

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