Species Austrorhytida capillacea (Férussac, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix capillacea Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1832. Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles. Paris livr. 22–28 plus plates. [4 Aug. 1832] [pl. 82, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 2 specimens, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Helix strangei Pfeiffer, L. 1849. Nachträge zu L. Pfeiffer Monograph Heliceorum Viventium. Malakozoologische Blätter 5: 89-94 [Jan. 1849] [94].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Brisbane Water, NSW.
• Nanina fricta Gould, A.A. 1852. Mollusca and shells. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 12: 1-510 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 5473, Illawarra, NSW.
• Strangesta revera Iredale, T. 1943. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt V. Australian Naturalist 11: 61-69 [Apr. 1943] [68].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Leura, Blue Mts, NSW.
• Strangesta sanguinolenta McLauchlan, C.F. 1954. Three new land shells from New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 12: 39 [24 Mar. 1954] [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C87329, Sugarloaf Range, NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM C87330 2 specimens; AM C87331 1 specimen.

  Secondary source:

   McLauchlan, C.F. 1951. Basic work on the life cycle of some Australian snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1949–50: 26-36 [2 Apr. 1951] [29, fig. 5] (nomen nudum); Burch, J.B. 1976. Outline of classification of Australian terrestrial molluscs (native and introduced). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 127-156 [131].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Field Guide to the Non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra : A.N.U. Press 285 pp. [264]

 

Generic Combinations

• Austrorhytida capillacea (Férussac, 1832). —
  Smith, B.J. 1987. Description of a new genus of carnivorous snail (Mollusca : Rhytididae). Victorian Naturalist 104(3): 86-90 [88]
• Strangesta capillacea (Férussac, 1832). —
  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] [119]
• Strangesta (Namoitena) strangei (Pfeiffer, 1849). —
  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. [303] (subgeneric placement)

 

Introduction

Austrorhytida capillacea is a common and widespread carnivorous snail in southeast New South Wales. The species is still fairly common in the Sydney area where native bushland is found. The animal is pale to dark grey, with a paler dorsal stripe and has a grey mantle.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

SE NSW to ME NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Forest, gardens, predator, under litter, under logs, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Dry woodland; living under deep litter

 

Diagnosis

Shell medium-sized to large, yellow or reddish-brown often with darker radial streaks, discoidal to subdiscoidal; protoconch with vague radial ribs and microspiral striae, teleoconch sculpture of prominent regular radial ribs usually becoming obsolete at the end of the last whorl; umbilicus wide, U-shaped; diameter to 28mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Smith, B.J. 1987. Description of a new genus of carnivorous snail (Mollusca : Rhytididae). Victorian Naturalist 104(3): 86-90

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. [128]

 

General References

McLauchlan, C.F. 1951. Basic work on the life cycle of some Australian snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1949–50: 26-36 [2 Apr. 1951] (breeding, anatomy)

Smith, B.J. 1987. Description of a new genus of carnivorous snail (Mollusca : Rhytididae). Victorian Naturalist 104(3): 86-90 (anatomy)

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. [128]

 

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. [128] (Common Southern Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

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03-Jan-2013		21-Jul-2016	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)