Species Austrorhytida lamproides (Cox, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix lamproides Cox, J.C. 1868. On some new species of Australian land shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 722-726 [3 Apr. 1868] [722].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C87292, NW coast, TAS.

 

Generic Combinations

• Strangesta lamproides (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] [120]
• Tasmaphena lamproides (Cox, 1868). —
  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. [119]
• Austrorhytida lamproides (Cox, 1868). —
  Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [90]

 

Introduction

Tasmaphena lamproides is characterised by a distinctly angulate whorl edge and relatively strong radial sculpture. The species is very variable in shell size between populations and is generally larger than other Tasmaphena species.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

NW TAS, and Wilson's Promontory VIC.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: King (KIN)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, tall closed forest.

 

Diagnosis

Shell medium to large, radially streaked yellowish-amber, trochoidal with moderately raised spire; protoconch with vague radial ripples, teleoconch sculpture of crowded anastomising radial ribs above with weaker radial threads on underside which overlay very weak spiral striae; whorls keeled with a sulcus above keel; umbilicus moderately wide, V-shaped; diameter 12-24mm.

 

Diagnosis References

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. [119]

 

General References

Bonham, K. & Taylor, R. 1997. Distribution and habitat of the land snail Tasmaphena lamproides (Pulmonata: Rhytididae) in Tasmania. Molluscan Research 18: 1-10 [1] (ecology)

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]

 

History of changes

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