Species Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox, 1868)

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• Pupa margaretae Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [80, pl. 14, figs. 20, 20a].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 552360, Wallaroo, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SMF 112500 1 specimen; BMNH 198.60.62.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [99].
• Pupa wallabyensis 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 1891.11.21.264, East Wallaby Is., Houtman Abrolhos, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1891.11.21.265–9 5 specimens; SAMA D13311 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [101].
• Gastrocopta tatei Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [165].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 13312, Central Australia.
• Gastrocopta pilbarana Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [103] [Slack-Smith (1993) listed cavernicolus specimens from the Cape Range as G. pilbarana but those specimens were in fact G. sp. CW1 of Whisson & Köhler (2013)].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 127–84, Sandy Point, Dirk Hartog Is., Shark Bay, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 145–86 19 specimens; FMNH 215118 3 specimens.

  Secondary source:

   Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1096]

 

Generic Combinations

• Australbinula margaretae (Cox, 1868). —
  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [302]
  Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [11, pl. 1, fig. 4]
• Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox, 1868). —
  Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [160-161, pl. 26, figs 7, 8]
  Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [99-101, figs 8-9,11-12]
  Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252 [249]
  Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1096-1099, figs 6, 8-10]
  Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013] [25, fig. 2F]
• Australbinula tatei (Pilsbry, 1917). —
  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [302]
  Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [10]
• Gastrocopta wallabyensis (Smith, 1894). —
  Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [171–172]
  Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [101-102, figs 13-15]
  Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252 [249]
  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. [291] (combination cited)
• Australbinula wallabyensis (Iredale, 1937). —
  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [302]

 

Introduction

Gastrocopta margaretae is a common a relatively widespread species in southern and western Australia. It is distinguished from other sympatric Gastrocopta spp. by the relatively slender lamellar barriers. Pokryszko (1996) gives a detailed account of the complicated synonymy of the species.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Victoria and coastal South Australia to coastal southern and western Western Australia; the Red Centre. An isolated record from northwestern Australia (KIng Leopold Range) and records from the Pilbara

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Low open scrubland, saxicoline.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

 

Diagnosis

Shell very small, translucent drab white, pupiform, smooth; aperture quadrate to subquadrate with six to seven barriers: a prominent parieto-angular barrier, a horizontal to sinuously slanted columellar lamellae, lower and upper palatal lamellae with the lower deflected upward, and basal and infraparietal nodes; height to 3.0 mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1096-1099]

 

General References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1096-1099]

Solem, A. 1986. Pupilloid land snails from the south and mid-west coasts of Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7: 95-124 [99-101]

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 [491-492, figs 56-59;] (as Gastrocopta tatei Pilsbry 1917)

Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252 [249] (Gastrocopta tatei Pilsbry 1917 and Gastrocopta pilbarana Solem. 1986)

Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013] [25]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2014	PUPILLIDAE	23-Apr-2014	MODIFIED
24-Jul-2012		24-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
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