Species Basedowena elfina (Iredale, 1939)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleuroxia polypleura elfina Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 2(1): 1-88 [published 1 Aug 1939; same text re-published 21 Aug.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88] [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 8880, Newman Rocks, E of Fraser Range, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 8880 5 specimens; AM C64849 2 specimens.

 

Generic Combinations

• Basedowena elfina (Iredale, 1939). —
  Criscione, F. & Köhler, F. 2016. Phylogenetic systematics of the land snail Basedowena from the Australian arid zone: taxonomic revision with description of new taxa (Stylommatophora : Camaenidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30: 370-386 [370]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Along the southern part of the W plateau region of WA and the southern Nullarbor, SA.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: W plateau
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Saxicoline, under rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

 

General References

Solem, A. 1997. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusc: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 50: 1461-1906 [1489] (pls 177d-f, 180a-f; figs 370Aa-c, 370Bd-f, 371a-c [radula, shell, anatomy])

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Nov-2016	CAMAENIDAE	17-Nov-2016	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)