Species Montidelos macquariensis (Cox, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix macquariensis Cox, J.C. 1872. Descriptions of a new volute and twelve new species of land-shells from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 643-647, pl. 52 [2 May 1872] [645] [condition of type specimen unsuitable for identification].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1880.12.11.21, Port Macquarie, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Saladelos macquariensis (Cox, 1872). —
  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [117]
• Montidelos macquariensis (Cox, 1872). —
  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. [126, 144, 572]

 

Introduction

Montidelos macquariensis has a less globose shell and wider umbilicus than M. orcadis. The animal is orange.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Western Barrington Tops, ME NSW to Grafton, NE NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, eucalyptus trees, litter-dwelling, rainforest, under logs.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, glossy yellow to amber with darker streaks in some specimens, subdiscoidal; protoconch shiny, with weak radial growth ridges, teleoconch sculpture of weak radial ribs giving way to prominent branched spiral wrinkles on body whorl, pronounced spiral grooves below; umbilicus wide, V-shaped; diameter 9.5mm.

 

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. [144]

 

General References

Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [117] (as Saladelos macquariensis)

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. [305] (as incertae sedis)

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. [144]