Species Elasmias terrestris (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tornatellina terrestris Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) A155 4 specimens, Yule Is., New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   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 [470].
• Tornatellina eucharis Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [110].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) A151 2 specimens, Barnard Is., QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [470]

 

Generic Combinations

• Elasmias terrestris (Brazier, 1876).

 

Introduction

A tiny arboreal land snail occurring in closed forest in northeastern Queensland. Similar to Elasmias wakefieldiae.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also occurs in southern Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, low closed forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Lowland rainforest and littoral vine thicket; living on leaves and branches of shrubs and saplings.

 

Diagnosis

Shell very small, translucent golden-brown, ovately conical; sculptured with weak growth ridges and spirally incised lines; columella with a small lamella; aperture sub-ovate with a weak parietal tooth; imperforate; height 2.9 mm.

 

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. [90]

 

General 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. [90]

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] [54]

 

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. [90] (Golden Miniature Treesnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)