Species Pumilicopta solemorum (Pokryszko, 1996)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gastrocopta (Pumiliocpta) solemorum Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1110, figs. 25, 26].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM MO222065, 2 km S of Verdon Rock, Riversleigh Stn, Gulf of Carpentaria, Qld.
  Paratype(s) FMNH 222065 23 specimens, 2 km S of Verdon Rock, Riversleigh Stn, Gulf of Carpentaria, Qld.

Generic Combinations

• Pumilicopta solemorum (Pokryszko, 1996). —
  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. [98, 567] (Pumilicopta re-instated to generic status)

Introduction

Pumilicopta solemorum is distinguished by its complex apertural barriers, It is larger and has a more ovate shell than either P. kessneri and P. bifurcata.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter.

Diagnosis

Shell minute, greyish white, broadly ovate; smooth with weak axial growth threads and strongly rounded whorls, aperture subquadrate with seven to nine teeth: a very large and long parieto-angular, concentric low infraparietal, slanted columellar and thich slanted infracolumellar lamellae; four knob-like palatal barriers in an arc ascending obliquely from the aperture to the parieto-palatal angle; lip strongly reflected; umbilicus tiny; height up to 2.2 mm.

Diagnosis References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1111-1112]

General References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1110-1112]

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