Subspecies Notopala kingi kingi (Adams & Angas, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vivipara kingi Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. 1864. Descriptions of new species of freshwater shells collected by Mr F.G. Waterhouse during J. McDonald Stuart's overland journey from Adelaide to the north-west coast of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 414-418 [20 Apr. 1864] [415].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1870.10.26.129 (2 specimens), King's Ponds, Arnhem Land (as Arnheim's Land), NT.
• Vivipara dimidiata Smith, E.A. 1882. On the freshwater shells of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 255-316 [265, pl. 7, fig. 17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1867.11.18.128, Victoria River, NT.

 

Generic Combinations

• Notopala dimidiata (Smith, 1882). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1935. Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 339-344 [30 Sept. 1935] [340] (new combination)
• Notopala kingi dimidiata (Smith, 1882). —
  Ponder, W.F., Hallan, A., Shea, M. & Clark, S.A. 2016. Corbicula fluminea Müller, 1774. Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/Freshwater_Oct18/Media/Html/corbicula_fluminea.htm
• Notopala kingi kingi (Adams & Angas, 1864). —
  Ponder, W.F., Hallan, A., Shea, M. & Clark, S.A. 2016. Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/
• Notopala kingi (Adams & Angas, 1864). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1935. Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 339-344 [30 Sept. 1935] [340] (new combination)

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Northeast WA through northern NT and east to western QLD, replaced in NSW by N. kingi suprafasciata

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater.

 

General References

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)
01-Jun-2021	CAENOGASTROPODA	17-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
22-May-2017	Notopala Cotton, 1935	26-Apr-2017	MODIFIED
14-Jan-2015	VIVIPAROIDEA	20-Apr-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)