Species Beddomeia hullii Petterd, 1889

• Beddomeia hullii Petterd, W.F. 1889. Contributions for a systematic catalogue of the aquatic shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1888: 60-82 pls 1-4 [76, pl. 1, fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C27804, Heazlewood R., Tasmania.
  Paralectotype(s) QVM 9:176 (3 specimens), Heazlewood River, TAS; AM C166057 (2 specimens); AM C27805 (2 specimens).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ponder, W.F., Clark, G.A., Miller, A.C. & Toluzzi, A. 1993. On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750 [577].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from vicinity of type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic freshwater, on stones.

Extra Ecological Information

Beneath stones on aquatic vegetation.

 

General References

Ponder, W.F. & Clark, G.A. in Ponder, W.F., Clark, G.A., Miller, A.C. & Toluzzi, A. 1993. On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750 [577-580, figs 17B, 40, 41A, 42A,B, 43, 47]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TRUNCATELLOIDEA	15-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)