Species Oxychilus draparnaudi (Beck, 1837)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helicella draparnaldi Beck, H.H. 1837. Index Molluscorum Praesentis Aevi Musei Principis Augustissimi Christiani Frederici. Hafniae : Beck Vol. 1 pp. 1-100. [6] [nom. nov. for Helix nitida Draparnaud, 1805].
• Helix nitida Draparnaud, J.P.R. 1805. Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles de la France. Paris : L. Colas viii 164 pp. [117] [non Helix nitidus Müller, 1774].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW Acq. No. 1820.xxvi.143 6 specimens, locality unknown.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico). Academy of Natural Sciences Philadadelphia, Monograph 2(2): 521-1113 [250]

 

Generic Combinations

• Oxychilus draparnaudi (Beck, 1837).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate SE Australia as far north as the ACT. Native to central and western Europe. Introduced to Russia, North America, South and North Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand

Introduced from Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Gardens, omnivore, under litter.

Extra Ecological Information

Old gardens; living under wood, litter, pots etc, wherever it is cool and damp

 

General References

Baker, H.B. 1929. Minute American Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 80: 1-44 (anatomy)

Barker, G.M. 1999. Naturalised terrestrial Stylommatophora (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Fauna of New Zealand, 38. Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 253 pp. [114-116]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Feb-2014	ZONITIDAE	19-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)