Species Altidelos bellendenker Stanisic, 2010

Museums

Regional Maps

• Altidelos bellendenker Stanisic, J. in 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. [150, 569] [etymology: for Mt Bellenden Ker].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM MO31281, just below summit, Mt Bellenden Ker, NE QLD [17°16'S, 145°51'E].
  Paratype(s) QM MO78863.

 

Introduction

Altidelos bellendenker is distinguished by the radially streaked shell with weak curved radial growth ridges and absence of spiral sculpture. A number of altitudinally restricted small rhytidids in the Wet Tropics occur only on the mountain summits and higher plateaux of the region. Altidelos bellendenker is a representative of this extensive, but poorly known fauna.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Bellenden Ker Range, NE QLD

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Montane rainforest, under logs.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, pale yellow with dark reddish radial streaks, glossy, subdiscoidal with flat spire, last whorl large and flared; protoconch shiny, smooth, adult shell almost smooth with weak irregular growth lines only; umbilicus moderately wide V-shaped, diameter 8.5mm.

 

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. [150]

 

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. [150]

 

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. [150] (Bellenden Ker Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		16-Apr-2012	ADDED