Species Prolesophanta dyeri (Petterd, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix dyeri Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [40].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C23024 2 specimens, Distillery Creek, Launceston, TAS.

  Secondary source:

   Burch, J.B. 1976. Outline of classification of Australian terrestrial molluscs (native and introduced). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 127-156 [131].

 

Generic Combinations

• Prolesophanta dyeri (Petterd, 1879).

 

Introduction

Prolesophanta dyeri differs from P. nelsonensis by lacking an umbilicus. The species is a scavenging carnivore and feeds on dead and living snails.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Central and westernTasmania and southern Victoria.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), King (KIN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Tall forest, scavenger.

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute, pale and glassy with darker reddish-yellow radial rays, discoidal, last whorl large and flared; protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculpture of radial growth ridges; umbilicus absent; diameter 3-4mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [40]

 

General References

Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Field Guide to the Non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra : A.N.U. Press 285 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Jan-2013		03-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)