Species Amimopina macleayi (Brazier, 1876)

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• Bulimus macleayi Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [108].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) A54 2 specimens, Yule Is., New Guinea; AM C55264 1 specimen, Yule Is., New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [50].
• Bulimus beddomei Brazier, J. 1876. List of land-shells collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 117-133 [127] [nom. nud.].
• Bulimus beddomei Brazier, J. 1880. List of the land shells found on Thursday Island, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 392-396 [May 1880] [395] [original description lists syntypes from both Torres Strait, QLD and Fanny Bay, NT].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C62696 1 specimen, Mt Ernest Is., Torres Strait, QLD and Fanny Bay, Darwin, NT; AM C62697 1 specimen, Mt Ernest Is., Torres Strait, QLD and Fanny Bay, Darwin, NT; AM C109984 4 specimens, Mt Ernest Is., Torres Strait, QLD and Fanny Bay, Darwin, NT.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1964. Amimopina, an Australian enid land snail. Veliger 6: 115-120 [119]

 

Generic Combinations

• Amimopina macleayi (Brazier, 1876).

 

Introduction

Australia's only endemic cerastid; it has a largely coastal distribution from mideastern Queensland, across the Top End and into the Kimberley, Western Australia. Animlas are often found sealed to tree branches during the northern dry season. Amimopina macleayi differs from Rhachistia histrio in the overall brown colour of its shell.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

From mideastern QLD to Cape York, QLD, and across to NT and northern WA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, tree dweller, vine thicket.

Extra Ecological Information

Living on leaves, branches and trunks of trees

 

Diagnosis

Shell medium to large, brown with a slight tinge of pink, globosely conical, thin and translucent; smooth to slightly malleated surface with very fine spirals on base of whorls, apex weakly granular; lip simple, top of columella broad and triangular; narrowly umbilicate; height to 20 mm.

 

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. [112]

 

General References

Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [30]

Lea, I. 1871. Descriptions of three new species of exotic Unionidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 23: 188 [Oct. 1871] (distribution, ecology)

Smith, B.J. & Dartnall, A.J. 1976. Veronicellid slugs in the Northern Territory with notes on other land molluscs. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 186 (natural history note)

Solem, A. 1964. Amimopina, an Australian enid land snail. Veliger 6: 115-120 (anatomy)

 

History of changes

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