Species Echotrida strangeoides (Cox, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix strangeoides Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C219, Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM C170705 3 specimens.

 

Generic Combinations

• Echotrida stangeoides (Cox, 1864). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59
  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. [126, 146, 570]
• Saladelos strangeoides (Cox, 1864). —
  Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [301]

 

Introduction

Echotrida strangeoides is distinguished from sympatric rhytidids by the sculpture of strong continuous spiral grooves on both upper and lower shell surfaces. Animal orange-grey.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Dorrigo, NE NSW to Kenilworth, SE QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, rainforest, under litter, under logs.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, yellow, subdiscoidal with low spire; protoconch with incised spiral grooves on the latter part, teleoconch sculpture of strong continuous spiral striae on upper and lower shell surfaces of the body whorl; umbilicus wide and deep, V-shaped; diameter 9mm.

 

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. [146]

 

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. [146]

 

Common Name 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. [146] (Spiral-lined Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

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