Species Brevisentis atratus Hyman, 2007
Black Jewel Glass-snail
- Brevisentis atratus Hyman, I.T. 2007. Three new genera and five new species of Helicarionidae from southeastern Australia (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). Molluscan Research 27(2): 89-104.
Type data:
Holotype AMSA 446473, Coolah Tops NP, at lookout 1 km S of Pinnacle Lookout at end of Pinnacle Rd, NSW, Australia, basalt rock pile at edge of escarpment, 26.v.2000, M. Shea.Type locality references:
Hyman, I.T. 2007. Three new genera and five new species of Helicarionidae from southeastern Australia (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). Molluscan Research 27(2): 89-104 [94].
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Bungonia Gorge, SE NSW to southern New England area, NE NSW
IBRA
NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Litter-dwelling, under logs, woodland.
Extra Ecological Information
Rocky outcrops (limestone, basalt, shale)
Diagnosis
Shell medium-sized, silky greenish amber to pale greenish, depressedly globose to discoidal; whorls rounded above and below periphery; protoconch with coarse spiral grooves, teleoconch with very crowded, microscopic incised spiral threads; umbilcus very narrow U-shaped. Animal dark grey to black, paler grey in the middle of tripartite sole. Shell laps narrow, finnger-shaped, not fused, uniform in colour. Caudal horn large, caudal foss vertical slit in tail.
General References
Hyman, I.T. 2007. Three new genera and five new species of Helicarionidae from southeastern Australia (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). Molluscan Research 27(2): 89-104 [94-96]
Hyman, I.T., de la Iglesia Lamborena, I. & Köhler, F. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics and systematic revision of the south-eastern Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Contributions to Zoology 86(1): 51-95 [71, Figs 7C, 12]
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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03-Oct-2018 | HETEROBRANCHIA | 05-Jun-2018 | MODIFIED | Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri |
05-Feb-2014 | HELICARIONIDAE | 30-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED | Dr John Stanisic (BAAM) |
26-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |