Species Murphitella froggatti Iredale, 1933
Murphitella froggatti, dorsal view. Diameter of shell: 17.5 mm
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Murphitella froggatti, ventral view.
Murphitella froggatti, apertural view.
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Species Murphitella froggatti Iredale, 1933
Froggatt's Carnivorous Snail
Compiler and date details
October 2012 - Dr John Stanisic
- Murphitella froggatti Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [49].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM C87295 2 specimens, Cairns, QLD.
Introduction
Murphitella froggatti differs from M. franklandiensis by the smaller size and presence of strong continuous spiral grooves on the teleoconch. Animal orange-grey with white dorsal stripe. Usually found above 400 m altitude.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Wet Tropics, in the uplands between Ayton and Tully, NE QLD
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Litter-dwelling, rainforest, under logs.
Diagnosis
Shell medium-sized, orange-brown to yellow with irregular orange-brown streaks, subdiscoidal to flat; last whorl large and flared; protoconch with very weak, low, growth ridges and very fine microspiral striae, teleoconch sculpture of weak radial growth lines and numerous strong intersecting spiral grooves; umbilicus narrow, V-shaped; diameter 17.5mm.
Diagnosis References
General References
Smith, B.J. 1979. Notes on two new species of rhytidid snails from Lizard Is. Nth Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 421-434 [422] (as synonym of Strangesta franklandiensis)
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. [302] (as synonym of Strangesta (Strangesta) franklandiensis)
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, 142, 572] (taxonomic decision)
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. [142] (Froggatt's Carnivorous Snail)
History of changes
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| 17-Apr-2012 | ADDED |