Species Coneuplecta calculosa (Gould, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix calculosa Gould, A.A. 1852. Mollusca and shells. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 12: 1-510 [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM 5465 1 specimen, Tahiti, Society Ils.

  Type locality references:

  Johnson, R.I. 1964. The recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould: Illustrations of the types described by Gould with a bibliography and catalog of his species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 239: 1-182 [50]; Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [544].
• Helix umbraculorum Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [Addendum, species No. 136].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Clarence River, NSW.
• Helix wilcoxi Cox, J.C. 1865. Descriptions of four new species of Australian land shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 594-596 [2 May 1865] [595].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C113775, Clarence River, NSW.
• Helix dendrobia Crosse, 1868.
• Helix (Conulus) barnardensis 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] [101].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM(MMUS) A106, Barnard Is., Qld.

  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 [51].
• Helix (Conulus) reedei 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] [101].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C55442 1 specimen, Darnley Is., Torres Strait, Qld; AM(MMUS) A111 21 specimens, Darnley Is., Torres Strait, Qld.

 

Generic Combinations

• Coneuplecta calculosa (Gould, 1852).
• Sodaleta reedei (Brazier, 1876).
• Sodaleta umbraculorum (Cox, 1864).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

SE NSW to NE Qld; NT. Elsewhere India and the western Pacific area. Narooma, NSW to NT, widely distributed on the islands of the Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, rainforest.

Extra Ecological Information

Living on leaves of shrubs and vines

 

General References

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [56-57]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2014	EUCONULIDAE	28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
05-Feb-2014		06-Feb-2012	MOVED
18-Jun-2010		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)