Species Kessneropa mimosa (Petterd, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix mimosa Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [33].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C23041 1 specimen, Launceston, TAS.

 

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]

 

Generic Combinations

• Kessneropa mimosa (Petterd, 1879). —
  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

Tasmania

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Tall forest.

 

General References

Bonham, K. 1996. Identification and natural history of Discocharopa mimosa, a Tasmanian arboreal charopid snail. Tasmanian Naturalist 117: 15-22 [15] (natural history)

 

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	01-May-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)