Species Phytia myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Auricula myosotis Draparnaud, J.P.R. 1801. Tableau des Mollusques Terrestres et Fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier : F. Bonnarig 116 pp. [53].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, KMV presumed lost, locality unknown.
• Auricula (Alexia) meridionalis Brazier, J. 1877 [imprint 1878]. Description of three new species of shells, from Australia and New Guinea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2(1): 25-27 [26].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 22506a 1 specimen, Port Adelaide Creek, SA; BMNH 1890.12.13.61–4 4 specimens, Port Adelaide Creek, SA; AM C55126 8 specimens, Port Adelaide Creek, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Climo, F.M. 1982. The systematic status of Auricula (Alexia) meridionalis Brazier, 1877 and Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933 (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Ellobiidae) in Australasia. National Museum of New Zealand, Records 2(6): 43-48 [44]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced to North America, West Indies, Australia and New Zealand.

Introduced from Europe.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), 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
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, inland salt marsh.

 

General References

Climo, F.M. 1982. The systematic status of Auricula (Alexia) meridionalis Brazier, 1877 and Rangitotoa insularis Powell, 1933 (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Ellobiidae) in Australasia. National Museum of New Zealand, Records 2(6): 43-48 [45] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)