Genus Paropeas Pilsbry, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paropeas Pilsbry, H.A. 1906. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. (eds) Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchology Dept. Academy Natural Sciences Ser 2 Vol. 18. 357 pp. 51 pls [10 Apr. 1906] [14] (as subgenus of Prosopeas).

  Type species:

   Bulimus acutissimum Mousson, 1857 by original designation, see Pilsbry, H.A. 1906. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. (eds) Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchology Dept. Academy Natural Sciences Ser 2 Vol. 18. 357 pp. 51 pls [10 Apr. 1906] [14].

 

Introduction

Paropeas differs from other subulinid genera in eastern Australia by being larger, having a more tapered spire and strong axial sculpture. Additionally, the periostracum is relatively well-developed compared to other genera.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Indonesia. Thus far in Australia only known from the Wet Tropics, northeastern Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell small, elongate with a distinctly tapering spire, apex blunt with bulb-like protoconch; whorls rounded in juveniles becoming rather flattened in adults; sutures slightly crenulated; apical whorls with weak spiral striations, teleoconch sculpture of fine crowded axial riblets; columella curved and slightly deflected away from base of aperture; imperforate in larger shells but very narrowly umbilicate in juveniles. Colour brown to pale yellow.

 

Diagnosis References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [120]

 

General References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [120]

 

History of changes

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