Species Tatemelon musgum (Iredale, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleuroxia musga Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [50] [pl. 2, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C19230, Musgrave Ranges, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) AM C334205 1 specimen; SAMA D14911 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Solem, A. 1993. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). VI. Taxa from the Red Centre. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 43: 983-1459 [1234].
• Xanthomelon wilpenensis Hedley, C. 1905. Report on the Mollusca collected by Mr Herbert Basedow on the South Australian government north-west expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 161-165 [Dec. 1905] [163] [not Tate, 1894].

  Secondary source:

   Solem, A. 1993. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). VI. Taxa from the Red Centre. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 43: 983-1459 [1233].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

E end of Musgrave Ranges, SA.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin

Ecological Descriptors

Saxicoline, under rocks.

 

General References

Solem, A. 1993. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). VI. Taxa from the Red Centre. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 43: 983-1459 [1233] (pls 133a-b, 135a-f; figs 306a-c, 307a-c [radula, shell, anatomy])

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)