found: Work cat.: Brook, F.J. Conservation status of the giant endemic landsnail Placostylus bollonsi on Three Kings Islands, c2003:abstr. (Placostylus bollonsi (Pulmonata: Bulimulidae))
found: NCBI taxonomy browser, via WWW, Jan. 18, 2004(Placostylus, family Orthalicidae)
found: 2003 IUCN red list of threatened species, via WWW, Jan. 18, 2004(8 species of Placostylus listed. Family Bulimulidae)
found: Lord Howe placostylus Placostylus bivaricosus (Gaskoin, 1855) recovery plan, c2001, via WWW (PDF), Jan. 18, 2004:p. 1 ("The Lord Howe placostylus Placostylus bivaricosus (Gaskoin, 1855) (Family Bulimulidae) is endemic to Lord Howe Island, and is most closely related to New Zealand Placostylus species (P. ambagiosus, P. bollonsi and P. hongii).")
found: Thiele, J. Handbook of systematic malacology, 1992:pt. 2, p. 1043 (Placostylus Beck, 1837. Family Bulimulidae)
found: Vaught, K.C. A classification of the living Mollusca, 1989:p. 86 (Placostylus Beck, 1837. Subfamily Bulimulinae, family Orthalicidae)
found: Goto, Y. A listing of living Mollusca, 1996:pt. 2, v. 2, p. 721 (Placostylus. Orthalicidae)
found: ARKive Web site, Jan. 28, 2008(Flax snail (Placostylus ambagiosus), also known as: New Zealand flax snail; Flax snail (Placostylus hongii), also known as: Pupuharakeke and New Zealand flax snail. Flax snails (Placostylus spp.) are endemic to New Zealand and belong to the world's oldest land snail family, which originated 200 to 300 million years ago.)
found: Stringer, I. Captive breeding of the endemic giant flax snail Placostylus ambagiosus in New Zealand, 2005, via WWW, viewed Jan. 28, 2008.
found: Wikipedia, Jan. 28, 2008(Placostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bulimulidae. This genus of snails is endemic to the island groups of the Melanesian Plateau; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, and Northland in New Zealand including offshore islands)
notfound: ITIS, Jan. 18, 2004
