Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. 1943. A basic list of the freshwater Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 188-230 [198]

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Ponder, W.F. & Middelfart, P.U. The Australian Faunal Directory, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd

Introduction

Subspecies not identified in Smith (1992: 83), synonymies followed Iredale (1943: 198).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Nandewar (NAN) ; NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld, SA: Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic freshwater.

General References

Carini, G. & Hughes, J.M. 2006. Subdivided population structure and phylogeography of an endangered freshwater snail, Notopala sublineata (Conrad, 1850) (Gatropoda: Viviparidae), in Western Queensland, Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 88: 1-16

Iredale, T. 1943. A basic list of the freshwater Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 188-230

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.

History of changes

• Vivipara alisoni Brazier, J. 1879. Description of a new species of Vivipara. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3: 221-222 [Feb. 1879] [221].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) A164 (2 specimens), Diamantina River, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [45].
• Notopala barretti Cotton, B.C. 1935. The Australian viviparous river snails. Victorian Naturalist 52: 96-99 [Oct. 1935] [97, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D11559, Innamincka, Cooper's Creek, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ponder, W.F. & Middelfart, P.U. The Australian Faunal Directory, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd

Generic Combinations

• Notopala sublineata alisoni (Brazier, 1879). —
  Ponder, W.F., Hallan, A., Shea, M. & Clark, S.A. 2016. Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/
• Notopala alisoni (Brazier, 1879). —
  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

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Diamantina River, Cooper Creek and other rivers of western QLD and northeast SA draining into Lake Eyre, and some eastern drainages in QLD, which may represent an undescribed species.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic 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

• Paludina sublineata Conrad, R.A. 1850. Descriptions of new species of freshwater shells. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 5: 10-11 [Feb. 1850] [11].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 28101, Darling River, NSW.
  Paratype(s) ANSP 327157 (3 specimens), Darling River, NSW.
• Paludina polita Martens, E.C. von 1865. On the Australian species of Paludina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 16: 255-256 [1 Oct. 1865] [256].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, presumed lost, Balonne River, QLD.
• Notopala gatliffi Cotton, B.C. 1935. The Australian viviparous river snails. Victorian Naturalist 52: 96-99 [Oct. 1935] [97] [unnecessary replacement name for Paludina polita Martens, 1865 as the supposed senior homonym is not Paludina polita Martens, 1865 but Vivipara polita Frauenfeld, 1862, see Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 pp. xii 408].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. 1943. A basic list of the freshwater Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(2): 188-230 [198]

Generic Combinations

• Notopala sublineata (Conrad, 1850). —
  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] (new combination)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Darling River and its major tributaries, primarily NSW but possibly north into QLD, absent from VIC

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Riverina (RIV)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Lotic freshwater.

General References

Carini, G. & Hughes, J.M. 2006. Subdivided population structure and phylogeography of an endangered freshwater snail, Notopala sublineata (Conrad, 1850) (Gatropoda: Viviparidae), in Western Queensland, Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London 88: 1-16

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