Species Discocharopa aperta (Moellendorff, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Patula aperta Moellendorff, O.F. von 1888. Von den Philippinen. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozooligischen Gesellschaft 20: 65-90 [89].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 165358, Montalban, Luzon, Philippines.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Solem, A. 1983. Endodontoid Land Snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Chicago : Field Museum 336 pp. [77].
• Endodonta (Charopa) planorbulina Tate, R. 1896. Mollusca. pp. 181-226 in Spencer, W.B. (ed.). Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Pt 2 Zoology. London & Melbourne : Melville, Mullen & Slade. [Feb. 1896] [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D3222 (damaged), Palm Creek, Krichauff Range, NT.
  Paratype(s) SAMA D13345 1 specimen; AM C60466 1 specimen.
• Endodonta concinna Hedley, C. 1901. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 721-732 [20 May 1901] [729] [Stanisic, J. 1990. Systematics and biogeography of eastern Australian Charopidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata) from subtropical rainforests. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 1–241 (145) erroneously quoted the lectotype of Endodonta concinna Hedley, 1901 as the lectotype of Patula aperta Moellendorf, 1888].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C8970, Bundaberg, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM C63489 6 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Solem, A. 1983. Endodontoid Land Snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Chicago : Field Museum 336 pp. [77].

  Secondary source:

   Stanisic, J. 1990. Systematics and biogeography of eastern Australian Charopidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata) from subtropical rainforests. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 1-241.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1984. Small land snails from Northern Australia. III. Species of Helicodiscidae and Charopidae. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6(3–4): 155-179 [164]

 

Generic Combinations

• Discocharopa aperta (Moellendorff, 1888).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE NSW northward across much of tropical Australia. Elsewhere SE Asia and the Pacific

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter-dwelling, saxicoline, vine thicket, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually on rocky outcrops

 

General References

Holcroft, L. & Stanisic, J. 2018. Thirteen new charopid land snails from mid-eastern Queensland rainforests (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Charopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 61: 155-186 [164, Fig. 4E-H]

Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [32]

Solem, A. 1983. Endodontoid Land Snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography. Chicago : Field Museum 336 pp. (zoogeography)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Dec-2016	PUNCTOIDEA	07-Apr-2015	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
06-Feb-2014	PUNCTOIDEA	01-May-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)