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Species Pumilicopta kessneri Solem, 1988

Kessner’s Pupasnail


Compiler and date details

June 2012 - Dr John Stanisic

 

Generic Combinations

 

Introduction

Pumilicopta kessneri is minute species distinguished by a combination of whitish shell with conical spire and an aperture densely packed with barriers. It differs from the east coast P. bifurcata in being slightly smaller and having more deeply recessed barriers.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, litter.

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute, greyish white, broad conically pupiform; smooth with weak axial growth threads and strongly rounded whorls, aperture subquadrate with nine barriers: a very large and long parieto-angular, concentric infraparietal, slanted columellar and deeply recessed infracolumellar lamellae; four knob-like palatal barriers in an arc ascending obliquely from well inside the aperture to the parieto-palatal angle; lip strongly reflected; umbilicus tiny; height up to 1.7 mm.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
24-Jul-2012 24-Jul-2012 MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012 27-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)