Species Sinotaia guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)

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• Vivipara heudei guangdungensis Kobelt, W. 1906. Die gattung Paludina. pp. 97-128 in Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). System Conchylien Cabinet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 (21a). [124, pl. 21, figs. 12-13].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF 38890, Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong Province, China.
• Viviparus polyzonatus Yen, T.C. 1939. Die Chinesischen Land- und Süsswasser- Gastropoden des Natur. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 444: 1-233 [37, pl. 3, figs. 14-15] (placed V. guangdungensis as synonym).

  Type data:

   Lectotype SMF 68038, China
  Comment: at least two paralectotypes are Vivipara guangdungensis.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Shea, M. 1994. The Chinese viviparid snail Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906) in Australia (Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Molluscan Research 15: 3-11 [8].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shea, M. 1994. The Chinese viviparid snail Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906) in Australia (Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Molluscan Research 15: 3-11 [3]

 

Generic Combinations

• Sinotaia guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906). —
  Ng, T.H., Tan, S.K. & Yeo, D.C.J. 2014. The taxonomy, distribution and introduction history of the earliest reported alien freshwater mollusc in singapore Sinotaia guangdungensis (Gastropoda: Viviparidae). Malacologia 57(2): 401-408
  Ponder, W.F., Hallan, A., Shea, M. & Clark, S.A. 2016. Corbicula fluminea Müller, 1774. Australian Freshwater Molluscs. http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/Freshwater_Oct18/Media/Html/corbicula_fluminea.htm
• Sinotaia quadrata guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906). —
  Brandt, R. 1974. The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 105: 1-423 [30]
• Angulyagra guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906) [Angulyagra replacement name for Dactylochlamys]. —
  Yen, T.C. 1943. A preliminary revision of the recent species of Chinese Viviparidae. Nautilus 56: 124-130 [128]
• Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906). —
  Shea, M. 1994. The Chinese viviparid snail Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906) in Australia (Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Molluscan Research 15: 3-11 [3]
• Vivipara (Dactylochlamys) guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906). —
  Prashad, B. 1928. Recent and fossil Viviparidae. A study in distribution, evolution and palaeogeography. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 153-251 [169] (raised to species, mis-spelt as quangdungensis)

 

Introduction

This species has confused taxonomic history. Originally described from Guangdong (“Guangdung’) province in China as a subspecies of Vivipara heudei, itself described as a variety of Paludina quadrata Benson, 1842, by Dautzenberg & Fischer (1905). Treated at species level by Prashad (1928) (as "quangdungensis") and then placed in the synonymy of V. polyzonatus by Yen (1939) before being reinstated as Angulyagra guangdungensis (Yen, 1943). Brandt (1974) placed guangdungensis in the genus Sinotaia as a subspecies of quadrata, while Shea (1994) placed it in Bellamya as a subspecies of B. heudei. Currently V. heudei is considered a synonym of P. qudrata (= Sinotaia quadrata) and we follow Ng et al. (2014) and Ponder et al. (2023) in treating the species as Sinotaia guangdungensis. See Shea (1994) and Ng et al. (2014) for further details.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Lane Cove River.

Introduced from China to Sydney region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater.

 

General References

Ng, T.H., Tan, S.K. & Yeo, D.C.J. 2014. The taxonomy, distribution and introduction history of the earliest reported alien freshwater mollusc in singapore Sinotaia guangdungensis (Gastropoda: Viviparidae). Malacologia 57(2): 401-408

Shea, M. 1994. The Chinese viviparid snail Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906) in Australia (Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Molluscan Research 15: 3-11

Smith, B.J., Reid, S. & Ponder, W.F. 2004. Non-marine Mollusca – Bivalvia, Neritopsina and Caenogastropoda. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/VIVIPARIDAE

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2024	VIVIPARIDAE	18-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
14-Jan-2015	VIVIPAROIDEA	12-Jan-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)