Species Cochlicopa lubrica (Müller, 1774)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix lubrica Müller, O.F. 1774. Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusorium, Helminthicorum, et Testaceorum, non marinorum, Succincta Historia. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber Vol. 2 xxvi 214 pp. [104].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (presumed lost), locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Academy of Natural Sciences Philadadelphia, Monograph 2(2): 521-1113 [1047].

 

Generic Combinations

• Cochlicopa lubrica (Müller, 1774).
• Cionella lubrica (Müller, 1774).

 

Introduction

Cochlicopids are protandrous hermaphrodites. They are herbivores and can occur in enormous aggregations in suitable conditions. Some species have been recorded as crop pests in Europe. They generally live in well watered gardens, parks, wasteland and around the edges of crops and pasture in moist cool climate areas. Favoured habitats are under drifts of dead leaves in gardens, along the edges of pathways, driveways, fence lines and under accumulated rubbish.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate SE and SW Australia (introduced)

Introduced from Northern Hemisphere.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic, WA: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Gardens, litter.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, transparent amber with pinkish white lip, glassy and elongately pupiform; sutures margined; lip thickened on inside, columella slightly sinuate; smooth; imperforate; height 7.5 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. [94]

 

General 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. [94]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [56]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	08-Jun-2018	MODIFIED	Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
16-May-2012		16-May-2012	MODIFIED
		28-Jan-2012	ADDED