Species Strangesta confusa (Pfeiffer, 1855)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix confusa Pfeiffer, L. 1855. Descriptions of thirty-eight new species of land shells from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855: 111-119 [13 Aug. 1855] [112].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Cape Upstart, QLD.
• Helix leichardti Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [35].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C101180 1 specimen, Port Denison district, QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [118].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. 1979. Notes on two new species of rhytidid snails from Lizard Is. Nth Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 421-434 [421]

 

Generic Combinations

• Strangesta confusa (Pfeiffer, 1855). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Strangesta (Strangesta) confusa Pfeiffer, 1855. —
  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. [301] (subgeneric placement)

 

Introduction

Strangesta confusa is distinguished from Briansmithia jackstirlingi by the combination of radially ribbed protoconch (smooth in the latter), flatter shell and larger size. Uncommon.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Sarina to Proserpine, ME Qld

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, rainforest, under logs.

 

Diagnosis

Shell very large, deep reddish-brown to yellow, subdiscoidal with a low-domed spire, last whorl very inflated; protoconch with low, curved radial ridges, teleoconch sculpture of numerous, closely spaced radial ribs and very weak, discontinuous spiral striae toward the end of the body whorl; umbilicus wide, V-shaped; diameter 40.5mm.

 

Diagnosis 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. [132]

 

General 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. [132]

 

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. [132] (Eungella Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

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