Species Annabellia assimilans (Cox, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix assimilans Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [sp. 135].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Clarence River, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Annabellia assimilans (Cox, 1864). —
  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, 132, 570]
• Strangesta assimilans (Cox, 1864). —
  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] [120]

 

Introduction

Annabellia assimilans is a small compact species characterised by the combination of coarse radial ribs and weak spiral striae on the teleoconch and in having a domed spire. It is distinguished from Terrycarlessia bullacea by having a smaller, less globose and darker coloured shell with very much weaker spiral sculpture.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Lower Clarence River area, NE NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, scrub, under litter, under logs, vine thicket.

Extra Ecological Information

Living under deep litter

 

Diagnosis

Shell relatively small to medium-sized, brownish-yellow with darker radial streaks, subglobose with a low-domed spire; protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculpture of prominent radial ribs and weak spiral striae above; umbilicus narrow, V-shaped; diameter 17mm.

 

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. [132]

 

General References

Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp.

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. [132]

 

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. [132] (Glenugie Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

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