Species Pupisoma circumlitum Hedley, 1897

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• Pupisoma circumlitum Hedley, C. 1897. Descriptions of new land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 44-48 [5 Aug. 1897] [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C3460, Bundaberg, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM C101072 8 specimens; FMNH 48350 1 specimen.

 

Introduction

Pupisoma circumlitum is common in some localities, but is often difficult to see because the shell is usually encrusted with dirt. It can be distinguished from the often sympatric P. porti by the more open umbilicus.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Narooma, SE NSW to FN QLD, and northern NT to Mitchell Plateau, N WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, rainforest.

Extra Ecological Information

Living on branches and twigs of vines and shrubs

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute to very small, bronze to dark brown, depressedly turbinate; sculpture of distinct growth lines and fine spiral threads; whorls rounded with impressed sutures; columella broad; narrowly umbilicate; height 2mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [473-474]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [100]

 

General References

Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [26]

Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [294]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [100]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [60]

 

Common Name References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [100] (Swollen Toothless Pupasnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Jul-2012		24-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)