Species Nesopupa scotti (Brazier, 1875)

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• Pupa (Vertigo) scotti Brazier, J. 1875. Descriptions of eleven new species of terrestrial and marine shells from north-east Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 668-672 [Apr. 1875] [669] [original description states "only one specimen obtained, at the watering place"; the status of paratype AM C9291 has not been resolved; description inadequate for reliable indentification, Solem, A., pers. comm.].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C101067, Fitzroy Is., QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM C9291 1 specimen.
• Pupa mooreana Smith, E.A. 1894. On the land-shells of Western Australia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1: 84-99 [June 1894] [97].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1891.11.21.176, Roebuck Bay, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1891.11.21.177–187 11 specimens; SAMA D13313 20+ specimens.

  Subsequent designation 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 [478].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stanisic. J. & Potter, D. in 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. [567]

 

Generic Combinations

• Nesopupa mooreana (Smith, 1894). —
  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. [292] (combination cited)
• Somniopupa scotti (Brazier, 1875). —
  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [305]

 

Introduction

Nesopupa scotti differs from both N. hackerae and N. novopommerana by the combination of blunt spire and cylindrically pupiform shape. Pupa mooreana Smith 1894 from the Northern Territory and Western Australia is considered a synonym.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Rockhampton Caves, SE QLD to the Torres Strait islands, Far North QLD, and northern NT and WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, dry vine thickets, litter-dwelling.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral vegetation

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute, golden brown, pupiform; shell surface finely wrinkled to granular with fine, oblique growth lines; aperture subquadrate with five barriers: a columellar, separate parietal and angular, and upper and lower palatal denticles; height 2.1mm.

 

Diagnosis 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. [106]

 

General References

Köhler, F. 2011. The camaenid species of the Kimberley islands, Western Australia (Stylommatophora: Helicoidea). Malacologica 54: 203-406 [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. (p. 292 as Nesopupa mooreana; p. 296 as Somniopupa scotti)

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. [106]

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] [62]

 

History of changes

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