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Flax Snails
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Flax Snails

Placostylus

Placostylus, or flax snails, are a genus of very large, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Placostylus fibratus

speciesPlacostylus fibratus

Placostylus porphyrostomus

speciesPlacostylus porphyrostomus

Placostylus caledonicus

speciesPlacostylus caledonicus

Placostylus scarabus

speciesPlacostylus scarabus

Placostylus cuniculinsulae

speciesPlacostylus cuniculinsulae

Placostylus eddystonensis

speciesPlacostylus eddystonensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51760.