Species Oxychilus cellarius (Müller, 1774)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix cellaria Müller, O.F. 1774. Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusorium, Helminthicorum, et Testaceorum, non marinorum, Succincta Historia. Havniae & Lipsiae : Heineck & Faber Vol. 2 xxvi 214 pp. [28].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, wine cellars of Copenhagen.
• Helix sydneyensis Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM(MMUS) IN6 2 specimens, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Long, D.C. 1972. Zonitid snails (Gastropoda : Pulmonata) introduced into Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 33: 115-120 [117]
• Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [111]

 

Generic Combinations

• Oxychilus cellarius (Müller, 1774).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australia as far north as Port Macquarie, ME NSW. Native to western Europe. Introduced to Scandinavia, North America, South America, the Philippines, South Africa, St Helena, Australia and New Zealand

Introduced from Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Omnivore, under litter, urban.

Extra Ecological Information

Old suburbs, towns and inner city industrial and residential areas; living under litter and rubbish, wherever it is cool and damp

 

General References

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [111-114]

Rigby, J.E. 1963. Alimentary and reproductive systems of Oxychilus cellarius (Müller) (Stylommatophora). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 141: 311-329 (anatomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Feb-2014	ZONITIDAE	23-Apr-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)