Genus Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amplirhagada Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [52].

  Type species:

   Helix (Hadra) sykesi Smith, 1894 by original designation.
• Tenuigada Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25: 1-88 [21 Aug. 1939] [68].

  Type species:

   Tenuigada percita Iredale, 1939 by original designation.
• Thetagada Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25: 1-88 [21 Aug. 1939] [63] [nom. nud., see Solem, A. 1981. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia. II. Taxa from the Kimberley, Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 11: 147–320 (148)].

  Secondary source:

   Solem, A. 1981. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia. II. Taxa from the Kimberley, Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 11: 147-320.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1981. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia. II. Taxa from the Kimberley, Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 11: 147-320 [148]

 

Introduction

Köhler (2011) reported Amplirhagada cf. astuta (Iredale, 1939) from Kooland Island, Yampi Sound, Molema Island, Talbot Bay (WA), and Amplirhagada cf. pusilla Solem, 1981 from St Andrew Island (15°21’26–36”S, 124°59’41–52”E) (WAM), which may represent undescribed species.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Northern Kimberley (NK) ; WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK)

General References

Köhler, F. 2010. Uncovering local endemism in the Kimberley, Western Australia: description of new species of the genus Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933 (Pulmonata: Camaenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 62: 217-284 [220]

Köhler, F. 2011. Descriptions of new species of the diverse and endemic land snail Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933 from rainforest patches across the Kimberley, Western Australia (Pulmonata: Camaenidae). Records of the Australian Museum 63: 167-202

Köhler, F. 2011. The camaenid species of the Kimberley islands, Western Australia (Stylommatophora: Helicoidea). Malacologica 54: 203-406 [207]

Köhler, F. & Johnson, M.S. 2012. Species limits in molecular phylogenies: a cautionary tale from Australian land snails (Camaenidae: Amplirhagada Iredale, 1933). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 337-362

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
27-Feb-2014	CAMAENIDAE	25-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	05-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)