Species Gyraulus (Gyraulus) meridionalis (Brazier, 1875)

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• Planorbis meridionalis Brazier, J. 1875. Descriptions of eight species of Australian and Tasmanian land and freshwater shells. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 17-20 [27 Apr. 1875] [20].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C100598 (ex Brazier Collection), Circular Head, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) QVM 9:116 2 specimens (dry), Ouse River, TAS; AM C100598 38 specimens (dry).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Brown, D.S. 1998. Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19(2): 105-154 [Date published 19 November 1998] [114].

  Type locality references:

  Brown, D.S. 1998. Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19(2): 105-154 [Date published 19 November 1998] [114].
• Planorbis tasmanicus Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1876. On the freshwater shells of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1875: 66-82 [21 Mar. 1876] [79].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) TMH E 872/8213 19 specimens, Circular Head, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, D.S. 1998. Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19(2): 105-154 [Date published 19 November 1998] [130]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Herbivore, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, swamp.

 

General References

Brown, D.S. 1998. Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19(2): 105-154 [Date published 19 November 1998] (pp. 111-128 as Gyraulus meridionalis, pp. 128-130 as Gyraulus tasmanicus)

Brown, D.S. 2001. Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: taxa of the mainland. Molluscan Research 21: 17-107 [Date published 4 September 2001] [76-80]

 

History of changes

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