Species Tasmaphena sinclairi (Pfeiffer, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix sinclairi Pfeiffer, L. 1846. Diagnosen einiger neuer Heliceen. Malakozoologische Blätter 2: 152-158 [Nov. 1846] [154].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1842.11.2.23, Hobart, TAS (as Van Dieman's Land).

  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] [117].
• Helix bombycina Reeve, L.A. 1854. Monograph of the genus Helix pls 175–209. In, Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 7. [pl. 188, sp. 1314] [July 1854].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, TAS (as Van Dieman's Land).
• Helix (Videna) quaestiosa Legrand, W. 1871. Collections for a Monograph of Tasmanian Land Shells. Hobart : W. Legrand (without page numbers). [Sept. 1871] [sp. 59].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Oatlands, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [117]

 

Generic Combinations

• Tasmaphena sinclairi (Pfeiffer, 1846). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [48]

 

Introduction

Tasmaphena sinclairi is readily distinguished by the light to dark yellow shell which has several darker brown concentric bands on the upper surface.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Montane, open forest, open scrub, predator, tall closed forest, woodland.

 

Diagnosis

Shell medium-sized, amber with or without dark brown or reddish spiral bands and interrupted lines, subdiscoidal with flattened spire; end of last whorl descends below whorl plane; teleoconch sculpture of strong crowded regular radial ribs above, smooth below; umbilicus moderately wide, U-shaped; diameter 12-16mm.

 

Diagnosis References

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. [117]

 

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. [304]

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. [117]

 

History of changes

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