Species Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bulimus gracilis Hutton, T. 1834. On the land shells of India. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 3: 81-93 [93].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Mirzapur, India.

  Secondary source:

   Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1952. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-snails of the families Ellobiidae to Limacidae, with an appendix on Helicarionidae. Treubia 21: 291-435 [378].
• Opeas ardelio Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt II. Australian Naturalist 10: 262-269 [262].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C100708, Byron Bay, NSW.

 

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 [521]

 

Generic Combinations

• Allopeas gracile (Hutton, 1834). —
  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. [120]
• Lamellaxis (Allopeas) gracilis (Hutton, 1834). —
  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. [309]

 

Introduction

The shell of Allopeas gracile is very similar to that of the endemic Eremopeas tuckeri, but lacks fine spiral sculpture on the apical whorls which is characteristic of the latter species. Widespread around the world.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

FN QLD (old records from Norfolk Island and Sydney, NSW). Elsewhere NT and WA. Native to India

Introduced from India.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, gardens, litter-dwelling, under logs, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Feeds on dead vegetation

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, white to colourless translucent, narrowly elongate, sculpture of arcuate growth lines giving the shell a silky lustre; sutures straight, whorls slightly rounded, apex smooth and blunt; columella straight, not truncated; slight umbilical chink present; height 7.5-10 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. [120]

 

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. [120]

 

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. [120] (Graceful Awlsnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012		19-Apr-2012	MOVED
03-Aug-2012		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)