Species Gastrocopta macdonnelli (Brazier, 1875)

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• Pupa (Vertigo) macdonnelli 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].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C101066 1 specimen, Fitzroy Is., QLD; ANSP 115538, Fitzroy Is., QLD.
• Pupa (Vertigo) macleayi 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) A134 31 specimens, Bet, Sue, Nepean, Dungeness and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A134i 3 specimens, Bet, Sue, Nepean, Dungeness and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A134ii 3 specimens, Bet, Sue, Nepean, Dungeness and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; ANSP 115542, Bet, Sue, Nepean, Dungeness and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [49].
• Gastrocopta macdonnelli macrodon 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] [164].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 63068, Mita, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1892.2.6.107–114 8 specimens, Mita, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea; AM C269 1 specimen, Mita, Milne Bay, Papua 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 [495].

 

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 [492]
• Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1099]

 

Generic Combinations

• Gastrocopta macdonnelli (Brazier, 1875).

 

Introduction

Gastrocopta macdonnelli is a tropical species. It can be distinguished from the somewhat similar G. stupafaciens by the combination of a strongly fused parieto-angular barrier and the strongly descending columellar lamellae.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Disjunct distribution from Townsville to the Torres Strait islands, QLD to elsewhere across northern Australia to the Kimberley, WA. New Guinea.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, litter-dwelling.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral vegetation

 

Diagnosis

Shell very small, translucent grey-white, ovately-pupiform, smooth; aperture ovate to subquadrate with six to eight barriers: a large strongly fused parieto-angular, a descending columellar lamella, prominent upper and lower palatal lamellae, and knob-like basal and infraparietal denticles, occasionally with weak supra- and inter-palatal denticles; height to 2.5 mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1099-1101]

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

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. [102]

 

General References

Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [28]

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1099-1101]

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. [102, 566]

 

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. [102] (Macdonnell's Pupasnail)

 

History of changes

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