Genus Elsothera Iredale, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elsothera Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [53].

  Type species:

   Helix sericatula Pfeiffer, 1850 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Stanisic, J. 1990. Systematics and biogeography of eastern Australian Charopidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata) from subtropical rainforests. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 1-241 [160].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Tasmania to Southern inland Qld. Elsewhere Tasmania, Vic and SE SA

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

General References

Burch, J.B. 1976. Outline of classification of Australian terrestrial molluscs (native and introduced). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 127-156 [132]

Hyman, I. & Stanisic, J 2005. New charopid land snails chiefly from limestone outcrops in NSW (Eupulmonata: Charopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50: 219-302 [255]

Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [324]

Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt II. Australian Naturalist 10: 262-269 [267]

Kershaw, R.C. 1956. Studies on Australian Charopidae. Part 3. Planate genera. Victorian Naturalist 72: 137-143 [140]

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. [187]

Stanisic, J. 1990. Systematics and biogeography of eastern Australian Charopidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata) from subtropical rainforests. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 1-241 [160]

Stanisic, J. 1996. New land snails from boggomoss environments in the Dawson Valley, southeastern Queensland (Eupulmonata: Charopidae and Camaenidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2): 343-354 [345]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Feb-2014	PUNCTOIDEA	06-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)