Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropodae
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Heterobranchia
Ordo: Pulmonata
Subordo: Eupulmonata
Clade: Stylommatophora
Cladus: Orthurethra
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Superfamilia: Orthalicoidea
Familia: Placostylidae
Genus: Placostylus
Subgenera: P. (Basileostylus) - P. (Maoristylus) - P. (Placostylus)
Name
Placostylus Beck, 1837
Gender: masculine
Type species: Limax fibratus Martyn, 1784
Fixation: designated under the plenary powers by ICZN (1992: 74)
References
Brescia, F.M.; Pöllabauer, C.M.; Potter, M.A.; Robertson, A.W. 2008: A review of the ecology and conservation of Placostylus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) in New Caledonia. Molluscan research, 28: 111-122. Abstract PDF
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
ICZN 1992: Opinion 1662. Limax fibratus Martyn, 1784 and Nerita hebraea Martyn, 1786 (currently Placostylus fibratus and Nerita hebraea; Mollusca, Gastropoda): specific names conserved; and Placostylus Beck, 1837: L. fibratus designated as the type species. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 49(1): 74-75. BHL Internet Archive
Powell, A.W.B. 1938: The Paryphantidae of New Zealand no. IV. and the genus Placostylus in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 2(3): 133-150, plates 33-35. [publication date: 17 November 1938]
Powell, A.W.B. 1947: Distribution of Placostylus land snails in northernmost New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 3(3): 173-188, plates 20-25. [publication date: 28 November 1947]
Powell, A.W.B. 1951: On further colonies of Placostylus land snails from northernmost New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 4(2): 134-140, plate 28. [publication date: 19 December 1951] BUGZ
Trewick, S.; Brescia, F.; Jordan, C. 2009: Diversity and phylogeny of New Caledonian Placostylus land snails; evidence from mitochondrial DNA. In: Grandcolas, P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 198: 421-436. ISBN 978-2-85653-618-6 ISSN: 1243-4442 [not seen]
