Species Occirhenea georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Albany Carinivorous Snail
Compiler and date details
October 2012 - Dr John Stanisic
- Helix georgiana Quoy, J.R.C & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 320 pp. [129, pl. 10, figs. 26-30].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP no number, Albany District, WA.
Generic Combinations
- Occirhenea georgiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832).
Introduction
Occirhenea georgiana is the only described rhytidid from SW Western Australia. The species was listed as extinct by the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation but has subsequently been rediscovered at Pemberton (Kendrick et al. 1971).
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)
Distribution References
- 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]
- 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
Ecological Descriptors
Tall forest.
Diagnosis
Shell small, pale yellow, subdiscoidal with flattened to moderately raised spire; protoconch with close low radial threads, teleoconch sculpture of prominent regular radial ribs above, smooth and glossy below; umbilicus moderately wide, U-shaped; diameter to 10mm.
Diagnosis References
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]
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
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
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 03-Jan-2013 | 03-Jan-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |