Species Peloparion helenae (Godwin-Austen, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helicarion helenae Godwin-Austen, H.H. 1883. Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afganistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 1 257 pp. [Oct. 1883] [146].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, NSW.
• Peloparion submissus Iredale, T. 1941. Guide to the land shells of New South Wales. Pt III. Australian Naturalist 11: 1-8 [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C101142, Scone, NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM C113774 numerous specimens.

 

Generic Combinations

• Peloparion helenae (Godwin-Austen, 1883).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Barrington Tops, ME NSW

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, subtropical rainforest, under bark, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Snow Gum woodland; under grass

 

General References

Godwin-Austen, H.H. 1883. Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India, including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afganistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. 1 257 pp. [Oct. 1883] (anatomy)

Hyman, I.T., de la Iglesia Lamborena, I. & Köhler, F. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics and systematic revision of the south-eastern Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Contributions to Zoology 86(1): 51-95 [92, Figs 32C, 35A, 36]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2014	HELICARIONIDAE	03-Apr-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic (BAAM)
18-Jun-2010		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)