Species Montidelos orcadis Iredale, 1943

Museums

Regional Maps

• Montidelos orcadis Iredale, T. 1943. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt V. Australian Naturalist 11: 61-69 [Apr. 1943] [68].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Barrington Tops, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Burch, J.B. 1976. Outline of classification of Australian terrestrial molluscs (native and introduced). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 127-156 [131].

 

Generic Combinations

• Saladelos orcadis (Iredale, 1943).

 

Introduction

The prominent spiral wrinkles, expansive last whorl and relatively narrow umbilicus distinguish M. orcadis from Vitellidelos dulcis.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Barrington Tops, ME NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Forest, subtropical rainforest, under logs, wet sclerophyll forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Beech forest

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, brownish-orange to yellow, often with darker radial streaks, subglobose, body whorl expansive and flared; protoconch shiny, with weak radial growth ridges, teleoconch sculpture of pronounced dendritic spiral wrinkles crossing ripple-like radial ribs above, spiral grooves below; umbilicus narrow, V-shaped; diameter 8.5mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [144]

 

General References

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. [301] (as a synonym of Saladelos urarensis)

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [126, 144, 572]

 

Common Name References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [144] (Allyn River Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MOVED
03-Jan-2013		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)