Species Geodiscus lomonti (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix (Discus) lomonti Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [101].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C33466 2 specimens, Yule Is., New Guinea; AM C128184 1 specimen, Yule Is., New Guinea; AM(MMUS) A20 16 specimens, Yule Is., New Guinea; AM(MMUS) A56 7 specimens, Yule Is., New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [51].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Melville Island

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Woodland.

 

General References

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] (anatomy)

 

History of changes

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