Species Pupisoma porti (Brazier, 1876)
Tall Toothless Pupasnail
Compiler and date details
April 2012 - Dr John Stanisic
- Helix (Conulus) porti Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [104] [as Helix (Conulus?) porti].
Type data:
Holotype AM(MMUS) A110, Albany Is., Torres Strait, QLD. - Laoma turbinuloidea Gabriel, C.J. 1930. Catalogue of the land shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 43: 62-88 [11 Sept. 1930] [81].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F709, Bairnsdale, VIC.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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] [126]
Generic Combinations
- Pupisoma porti (Brazier, 1876).
Introduction
Pupisoma porti is an arboreal species with a broad eastern Australian distribution. This may be the same species as the widespread, similar looking Indo-Pacific and northern Australian P. orcula (Benson, 1850).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Far north QLD to central NSW and possibly south to Bairnsdale, VIC
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Arboreal, dry vine thickets, rainforest.
Extra Ecological Information
Living on twigs and branches of shrubs and vines
Diagnosis
Shell minute to very small, brown, turbinate with relatively high spire; sculpture of distinct growth lines and finer spiral threads; whorls rounded, sutures deeply impressed; columella moderately broad, sinuous; umbilicus almost closed to closed; height 2mm.
Diagnosis References
General References
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]
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] (Tall Toothless Pupasnail)
History of changes
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06-May-2020 | STYLOMMATOPHORA | 27-Jul-2021 | MODIFIED | |
24-Jul-2012 | 24-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
27-Jun-2012 | 27-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |