Species Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix virgata Da Costa, E.M. 1778. Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae or The British Conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland. London : E.M. Da Costa xii 254 pp. [79].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Hampshire, Cornwall, Heddington Heath, Oxfordshire and Newmarket Heath, Cambridgeshire, England.

  Secondary source:

   Cotton, B.C. 1954. A catalogue of introduced snails and slugs in Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 11: 177-187 pl. 24 [181]; Pomeroy, D.E. & Laws, H.M. 1967. The distribution of introduced snails in South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 15: 483-494 [484].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cernuella (Cernuella) virgata (Da Costa, 1778).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread through drier areas of southern Australia reaching central NSW. Native to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa

Introduced from Europe.

Ecological Descriptors

Crop, herbivore, tussock grassland.

Extra Ecological Information

Quarries, roadside vegetation, wasteland and pasture; living sealed to posts, grass and vegetation

 

General References

Baker, G.H. 1986. The biology and control of white snails (Mollusca: Helicidae), introduced pests in Australia. CSIRO Aust. Div. Entomol. Tech. Pap. No. 25 31 pp. (biology)

Baker, G.H. 1988. The dispersal of Cernuella virgata (Mollusca: Helicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 36(5): 513-520

Baker, G.H. 1988. The life history, population dynamics and polymorphism of Cernuella virgata (Mollusca: Helicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 36(5): 497-512

Clerx, J.P.M. & Gittenberger, E. 1977. Einiger Über Cernuella (Pulmonata : Helicidae). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 52: 27-56 (anatomy)

Smallridge, M.A. & Kirby, G.C. 1988. Competitive interactions between the land snails Theba pisana (Muller) and Cernuella virgata (da Costa) from South Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 54: 251-258 (ecology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-May-2012	HELICOIDEA	25-May-2012	MOVED	Dr John Stanisic
25-May-2012		25-May-2012	MOVED
05-Feb-2014		05-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)