Genus Occirhenea Iredale, 1933

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• Occirhenea Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [48].

  Type species:

   Helix georgiana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Occirhenea is endemic to southwestern Australia. A single species is currently described from the King Georges Sound area with the possibility of a second species occurring in the Stirling Ranges.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell small, discoidal to subdiscoidal with a flat to low-domed spire, whorls rounded; protoconch with close, low radial threads, teleoconch sculpture of prominent regular radials above, smooth and glossy below with weak radial threads; umbilicus moderately wide, U-shaped. Colour pale yellow.

 

Diagnosis References

Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [48]

Iredale, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 2(1): 1-88 [published 1 Aug 1939; same text re-published 21 Aug.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88]

 

General References

Kendrick, G.W., Sedgwick, E.H. & Smith, B.J. 1971. The rediscovery of Helix georgiana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Mollusca : Gastropoda) at Pemberton and the discovery of a related species in the Stirling Ranges, Weatern Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 12: 5-11

 

History of changes

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03-Jan-2013		03-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)