Species Pleurodiscus balmei (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix balmei Potiez, V.L.V. & Michaud, A.L.G. 1838. Galerie des mollusques ou catalogue méthodique, descriptif et raisonné des Mollusques et Coquilles du Muséum de Douai. Paris : J.B. Baillière Vol. 1 560 pp. [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype MDFR (all known types destroyed in World War I, Naggs, F., pers. comm.), near Palmero, Sicily.
• Helix flavida Rossmässler, E.A. 1839. Iconographie der land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken, mit vorzüglicher Berücksichtigung der europäischen noch nicht abgebildeten Arten. Dresden & Leipzig : Arnoldische Buchhandlung II. Bd., III. IV. (IX. X.) Heft, iii-iv, 46 pp. [13].
• Helix erdelii Roth, J.R. 1839. Molluscorum species: queas in itiniere per orientem facto comites clariss. Munich : Caroli Wolf. [46].
• Helix teresae Benoit, L. 1843. Richerche Malacologiche. Messina : Capra.

  Secondary source:

   Bank, R.A. & Menkhorst, H.P.M.G. 1991. Bemerkungen über rezente Arten der Gattung Pleurodiscus (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pupilloidea). Basteria 55: 61-71; 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. [111].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pleurodiscus balmei (Potiez & Michaud, 1838).

 

Introduction

An introduced species with a limited distribution in the Sydney Basin.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Sydney and the Blue Mountains, NSW; key localities include: Waverley Cemetery, Sydney; Glebe Gully, Randwick; ‘Everglades’, Leura.

Introduced from southern Europe, Mediterranean area.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Associated with old stone walls and dumped masonry

 

Diagnosis

Shell medium, pale golden-brown, discoidal with a low domed spire; whorls shouldered in juveniles but rounded in adults; sculpture consisting of prominent radial ribs; lip thin, umbilicus medium-sized; diameter to 11mm.

 

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. [111]

 

General References

Bank, R.A. & Menkhorst, H.P.M.G. 1991. Bemerkungen über rezente Arten der Gattung Pleurodiscus (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Pupilloidea). Basteria 55: 61-71 [63-68, figs. 5, 6] (generic revision)

Shea, M. 1982. First pleurodiscid snail in Australia. Australian Shell News 40: 6-7 (Australian record)

 

Common Name 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. [111] (Mediterranean Disc Snail)

 

History of changes

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