Species Geostilbia gundlachi (Pfeiffer, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Achatina gundlachi Pfeiffer, L. 1850. Beschschreibungen neuer landschnechen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1850: 63-80 [80].
• Geostilbia caledonica Crosse, H. 1867. Description d'un genre nouveau et de plusieurs espèces inédites provenant de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Journal de Conchyliologie 15(2): 177-194 [186, pl. 7, fig. 4].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1909-1910. Pulmonata. Manual of Conchology Series 2 20: 1-336 [45] (Part 77, pp. 1-64, pls 1-10 issued 1908)

 

Generic Combinations

• Geostilbia gundlachi (Pfeiffer, 1850).

 

Introduction

Geostilbia gundlachi is only known from the single locality outside of Mont Morgan, mid-eastern Queensland where it was found among litter under a fig tree in a paddock. The locality was a bivouac for troops during World War II; it is most likely that the animal was transported via troops and/or equipment that had been moving through Asia and the Pacific.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Morgan area, ME Qld (introduced). Native to the West Indies but introduced to the Pacific (New Caledonia) and elsewhere

Introduced from the West Indies.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Under fig tree

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute to very small, transparent colourless to greenish yellow, narrowly elongate with blunt apex, smooth and glossy; aperture narrow with rather truncated columella; imperforate; height 3mm.

 

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. [117]

 

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397

Smith, B.J. 1998. Family Ferrussaciidae. 1087 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.

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. [117]

 

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. [117] (West Indian Needlesnail)

 

History of changes

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