Species Cupedora cassandra (Pfeiffer, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix (Hadra) cassandra Pfeiffer, L. 1864. Descriptions of ten new species of land-shells from the collection of George French Angas, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 526-529 [20 Apr. 1864] [527].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) HMNT no number 3 specimens, Murray Cliffs, SA.
• Meracomelon moorundianum Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D14317, Tailem Bend, SA.
  Paratype(s) AM C112589 1 specimen, Tailem Bend, Murray River, S.A.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Field Guide to the Non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra : A.N.U. Press 285 pp. [269]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Lower Murray.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Saxicoline, under rocks.

 

General References

Solem, A. 1992. Camaenid land snails from southern and eastern South Australia, excluding Kangaroo Island. Pt 1. Systematics, distribution and variation. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 2: 1-338 [41] (fig. 14 a-g [ shell], pl. 7a,b [radula], pl. 23b [jaw], pl.25 d-f [shell sculpture], fig. 15 a-c [genital anatomy])

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)