Species Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pupa servilis Gould, A. 1843. Monograph of the species of Pupa found in the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 4: 350-360 [356].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown not traced, Santa Cruz and near Matanzas, Cuba.

  Secondary source:

   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 [483].
• Pupa microsoma Tapparone-Canefri, C. 1883. Fauna malacologica delle Nuova Guinea e delle Isole adiacenti. Parte I. Molluschi estramarini. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 19: 1-313 [5 July 1883] [107-108, pl. 2, figs 1, 2].
• Pupa lyonsiana Ancey, C.F. 1892. Études sur la faune malacologique des Iles Sandwich. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 5: 708-722 [713].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013] [32-33]

 

Generic Combinations

• Gastrocopta lyonsiana (Ancey, 1892). —
  Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [141-144, pl. 24, figs 1-4]
  Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1952. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. III Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-snails of the families Ellobiidae to Limacidae, with an appendix on Helicarionidae. Treubia 21: 291-435 [355, fig. 34]
• Gastrocopta microsoma (Tapparone-Canefri, 1883). —
  Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [152, pl. 24, fig. 9]
  Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van 1964. Non-marine Mollusca of West New Guinea. Part 3, Pulmonata, I. Nova Guinea, Zoology 26: 1-74 [4-5]
• Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843). —
  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 [483-484, figs 38-41]
  Shea 2006. Exotic snails and slugs found in Australia. Malacological Society of Australiasia Newsletter. Australian Shell News 130: 1-8 [7, fig. 4]
  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. [104, fig. 123]
  Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013] [32-33, fig. 2G]

 

Introduction

Gastrocopta servilis is an introduced species living locally in urban and plantation areas, ports and areas of disturbed habitat. It is distinguished fron native Gastrocopta spp. by the lustrous brown colour of the shell.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE QLD and offshore islands to NE QLD; and near Broome and in the Pilbara (single locality in Karatha township) N WA. Yet to be collected in the Northern Territory. Native to the West Indies, but introduced into the Asia-Pacific and now widespread

Introduced from West Indies.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Litter-dwelling, urban.

Extra Ecological Information

Plantation areas, ports and areas of habitat disturbance

 

Diagnosis

Shell very small, light brown, elongately pupiform, smooth; aperture subquadrate with four to five barriers: a prominent parieto-angular, a horizontal columellar and upper and lower palatal lamellae, occasionally with a weak basal denticle; height up to 2.6 mm.

 

Diagnosis References

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 [483]

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. [104]

 

General References

Shea 2006. Exotic snails and slugs found in Australia. Malacological Society of Australiasia Newsletter. Australian Shell News 130: 1-8 [7, fig. 4]

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 [483-484]

Solem, A. 1991. Distribution and diversity patterns of Australian pupilloid land snails (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Pupillidae, s.l.). Veliger 34(3): 233-252 [249] (introduction)

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. [104, 566]

Whisson, C.S. & Köhler, F. 2013. Gastrocopta (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pupillidae) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ZooKeys 261: 15-39 [published online Jan 24, 2013] [32]

 

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. [104] (Glossy Pupasnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2014	PUPILLIDAE	23-Apr-2014	MODIFIED
24-Jul-2012		24-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)