Species Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, 1821

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• Helicarion cuvieri Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1821. Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris : Bertrand xlvii 114 pp. [Jan. 1821] [20].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP no number, Needles picnic ground, S of Strathgordon Road, SW TAS (as Terres Australis).
• Vitrina nigra Quoy, J.R.C & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 320 pp. [135-136, pl. 11, figs. 8-9].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP no number, Western Port, VIC.
• Vitrina verreauxii Pfeiffer, L. 1850. Descriptions of twelve new species of Vitrina and Succinea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1849: 132-134 [June 1850] [132].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 197780 3 specimens, TAS (as Australia).

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt II. The Australian Zoologist 9: 1-39 [12 Nov. 1937] [7].
• Helix buttoni Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [55] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Helix (Paraphanta) vitrinaformis Legrand, 1871].
• Helicarion leopardina Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III. Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C101141, Ourimbah scrubs, NSW.
• Helicarion mastersi callidus Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III. Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C101138, Twofold Bay, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Redescription of Helicarion cuvieri from southern Tasmania and Helicarion freycineti from New South Wales (Pulmonata : Helicarionidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 145-156 [146]
• Hyman, I.T. & Köhler, F. 2018. Reconciling comparative anatomy and mitochondrial phylogenetics in revising species limits in the Australian semislug Helicarion Férussac, 1821 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 933-968

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, fungivore, litter, open forest, under bark, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Under logs, tall forest.

General References

Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Redescription of Helicarion cuvieri from southern Tasmania and Helicarion freycineti from New South Wales (Pulmonata : Helicarionidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 145-156 (anatomy)

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