Species Elasmias wakefieldiae (Cox, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Achatinella wakefieldiae Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [78].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Grafton, Clarence River, NSW.
• Elasmias schola Iredale, T. 1944. The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. The Australian Zoologist 10: 299-334 [10 May 1944] (307, pl.18, fig.15).

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C107409, Lord Howe Is.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [534]

 

Generic Combinations

• Elasmias wakefieldiae (Cox, 1868).

 

Introduction

Elasmias wakefieldiae is widespread across eastern Australia occurring from south coastal New South Wales to mid-east Queensland. The shell and animal are white in colour and much paler in colour than the northern Elasmias terrestris. Very similar to Elasmias terrestris, and they may yet prove to be synonymous.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In coastal and subcoastal rainforest and vene thickets from the Illawarra region, NSW to mid-eastern QLD; also on Lord Howe Island.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, rainforest, vine thicket.

Extra Ecological Information

On leaves of shrubs and saplings

 

Diagnosis

Shell very small, transparent white with golden brown apical whorls, ovately conical; sculpture of fine incised spiral lines; columella broad and truncate, possessing a small lamella; aperture sub-ovate with a parietal lamella; imperforate; height 2.9mm.

 

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. [90]

 

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. [90]

 

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. [90] (Wakefield's Miniature Treesnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Mar-2012		28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)