Subspecies Gudeoconcha sophiae magnifica Iredale, 1944

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• Gudeoconcha magnifica Iredale, T. 1944. The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. The Australian Zoologist 10: 299-334 [10 May 1944] [327] [status revised AFD 2009, following Hyman (2005) (unpublished PhD thesis)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C38972, Little Slope, Mt Gower, Lord Howe Is. [31°35.33 ′ S, 159°3.98 ′ E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Predominantly confined to the summits of Mount Gower and Mount Lidgbird, Lord Howe Island

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Ecological Descriptors

Rainforest, under logs.

Extra Ecological Information

In leaf litter, under rocks and logs, and in palm trees (in crutch between trunk and stems); cloud forest

 

General References

Hyman, I. 2005. Taxonomy, systematics and evolutionary trends in Helicarionida (Mollusca, Pulmonata). Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Sydney.

Hyman, I.T. & Ponder, W.F. 2016. Helicarionidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Stylommatophora) of Lord Howe Island. Molluscan Research 36(2): 84-107 [95, Figures 2C, 3C, 4C, 5B, 6C, 8G–I, 9, 10B–D; Table 3]

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. (Gudeoconcha magnifica treated as a synonym of Gudeoconcha sophiae sophiae)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2014	HELICARIONIDAE	20-Aug-2013	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic (BAAM)
18-Jun-2010		20-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)