Species Pupisoma circumlitum Hedley, 1897
Swollen Toothless Pupasnail
Compiler and date details
April 2012 - Dr John Stanisic
- Pupisoma circumlitum Hedley, C. 1897. Descriptions of new land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 44-48 [5 Aug. 1897] [44].
Type data:
Holotype AM C3460, Bundaberg, QLD.
Paratype(s) AM C101072 8 specimens; FMNH 48350 1 specimen.
Introduction
Pupisoma circumlitum is common in some localities, but is often difficult to see because the shell is usually encrusted with dirt. It can be distinguished from the often sympatric P. porti by the more open umbilicus.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Narooma, SE NSW to FN QLD, and northern NT to Mitchell Plateau, N WA
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Dry vine thickets, rainforest.
Extra Ecological Information
Living on branches and twigs of vines and shrubs
Diagnosis
Shell minute to very small, bronze to dark brown, depressedly turbinate; sculpture of distinct growth lines and fine spiral threads; whorls rounded with impressed sutures; columella broad; narrowly umbilicate; height 2mm.
Diagnosis References
Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [473-474]
General References
Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [26]
Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [294]
Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [60]
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. [100] (Swollen Toothless Pupasnail)
History of changes
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24-Jul-2012 | 24-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
27-Jun-2012 | 27-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |