Species Huntiana murrayana (Pfeiffer, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix murrayana Pfeiffer, L. 1864. Descriptions of ten new species of land-shells from the collection of George French Angas, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 526-529 [20 Apr. 1864] [527].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Murray Cliffs, SA.
• Helix reteporoides Tate, R. 1887. Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and fresh-water Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 62-75 [62].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13344, Black Hill, near Adelaide, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA D15979 1 specimen; SAMA D15946 2 specimens; AM C60451 1 specimen.
• Endodonta murrayana submurrayana Cox, J.C. & Hedley, C. 1912. An index to the land shells of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 4: 5-14 pls i-iii [Feb. 1912] [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C63494, Geelong, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM C2125 3 specimens.
• Elsothera nesana Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D13770, Port Lincoln, SA.
  Paratype(s) AM C60449 2 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Field Guide to the Non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra : A.N.U. Press 285 pp. [265]
• Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [188] (based on original descriptions and an examination of types)

 

Generic Combinations

• Elsothera murrayana (Pfeiffer, 1864). —
  Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [568]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, woodland.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Oct-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	02-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
06-Feb-2014	PUNCTOIDEA	09-Jan-2013	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)