Species Lehmannia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limax nyctelius Bourguignat, J.R. 1861. Des Limaces Algeriénnes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 2 13: 299-307 [305].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Algeria.
• Limax legrandi Tate, R. 1881. On some Australian slugs, chiefly Tasmanian. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1880: 15-18 [1881] [16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Hobart (Legrand) and Launceston (Petterd), TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Altena, C.O. van R. & Smith, B.J. 1975. Notes on introduced slugs of the families Limacidae and Milacidae in Australia, with two new records. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 63-80 [75]
• Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [78]

 

Generic Combinations

• Lehmannia nyctelia (Bourguignat, 1861).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Throughout SE Australia. Native to Europe. Introduced to North America, South Africa, Great Britian, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand

Introduced from eastern and southern Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Crop, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Pasture, gardens and nurseries; living under dead matted grass, wood and rubbish

 

General References

Altena, C.O. van R. & Smith, B.J. 1975. Notes on introduced slugs of the families Limacidae and Milacidae in Australia, with two new records. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 63-80 (anatomy)

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [78-79]

 

History of changes

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