Genus Notopala Cotton, 1935
Compiler and date details
December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Notopala Cotton, B.C. 1935. Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 339-344 [30 Sept. 1935] [339].
Type species:
Paludina hanleyi Frauenfeld, 1864 by original designation. - Notopalena Iredale, T. 1943. A basic list of the freshwater Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 188-230 [197].
Type species:
Vivipara essingtonensis Frauenfeld, 1862 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Stoddart, J.A. 1982. Western Australian viviparids (Prosobranchia : Mollusca). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 167-173 [172]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld, SA: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
General References
Ponder, W.F., Hallan, A., Shea, M. & Clark, S.A. 2016. Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/
Sheldon, F. & Walker, K.F. 1993. Shell variation in Australian species of Notopala (Gastropoda: Viviparidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 14: 59-71
Smith, B.J., Reid, S. & Ponder, W.F. 2004. Non-marine Mollusca – Bivalvia, Neritopsina and Caenogastropoda. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/VIVIPARIDAE
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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22-May-2017 | Notopala Cotton, 1935 | 26-Apr-2017 | MODIFIED | |
14-Jan-2015 | VIVIPAROIDEA | 23-Aug-2012 | MODIFIED | Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |