Species Queridomus grenvillei (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix (Conulus) grenvillei 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?) grenvillei].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM(MMUS) A108, Home Is., off Cape Grenville, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [50].

 

Generic Combinations

• Queridomus grenvillei (Brazier, 1876).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical northern Australia as far south as Mackay, SE Qld

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, litter-dwelling, rainforest.

 

General 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 [552] (taxonomy, anatomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2014	EUCONULIDAE	30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
05-Feb-2014		06-Feb-2012	MOVED
18-Jun-2010		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)