Species Succinea (Succinea) australis (Férussac, 1821)

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• Helix (Cochlohydra) australis Férussac, A.E.J.P.J.F. d'A. de 1821. Tableaux Systematiques des Animaux Mollusques: suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles vivantes ou fossiles. Paris : Bertrand xlvii 114 pp. [Jan. 1821] [31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 6 specimens, Kangaroo Is., St Peter Is. and St Francis Is. (as Isles St Pierre and St Francois), SA.
• Succinea strigata Pfeiffer, L. 1855. Descriptions of fifty-seven new species of Helicea, from Mr Cuming's collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1854: 286-298 [8 May 1855] [297].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH no number 4 specimens, Port Clarence, Behring's Straits.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [307].
• Succinea rhodostoma Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [27].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Point Lowly, SA.
• Succinea eucalypti Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C63697, county of Cumberland, NSW.
  Paratype(s) SMF 10594/7 1 specimen.
• Succinea legrandi Legrand, W. 1871. Collections for a Monograph of Tasmanian Land Shells. Hobart : W. Legrand (without page numbers). [Sept. 1871] [sp. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Kangaroo Point, TAS.
• Succinea australis queenboroughensis Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [49].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Queenborough, TAS.
• Succinea australis tamarensis Petterd, W.F. 1879. A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Launceston : privately published vi 55 pp. [Apr. 1879] [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C27777 2 specimens, Tamar River, near Launceston, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [307]
• Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1979. Field Guide to the Non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra : A.N.U. Press 285 pp. [262]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Low woodland, salt marsh, swamp.

 

General References

Laws, H.M. 1973. The chromosomes of Succinea australis (Férussac). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 389-392 (karyology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Feb-2014	SUCCINEIDAE	23-Apr-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)