Species Austrorhytida harriettae (Cox, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix harriettae Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [29].

  Type data:

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

 

Generic Combinations

• Austrorhytida harriettae (Cox, 1868). —
  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, 128, 570]
• Strangesta harriettae (Cox, 1868). —
  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]

 

Introduction

Austrorhytida harriettae has a similarly coloured shell to A. barringtoniana, but differs by being smaller with much weaker sculpture. The animal is pinkish-orange. The type locality of this species was given as Richmond River, NSW by Cox (1868), but no streaked forms have been found there. The type specimen of Austrorhytida harriettae is presumed lost, but based on the description and figure, the name was confidently applied to a species from the central coast of NSW by Stanisic et al. (2010).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Wauchope to Nambucca and W to the Great Dividing Range, NE NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Under logs, under rocks, vine thicket.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small to medium-sized, glossy yellow with darker yellow radial streaks, subdiscoidal with low to moderately raised spire; protoconch with vague radial ridges and microspiral striae; teleoconch sculpture of moderately weak radials on upper surface, shiny below; lip sinuous; umbilicus moderately wide, U-shaped; diameter 14mm.

 

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. [128]

 

General References

Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 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. [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] (Harriett's Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

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