Species Torresiropa spaldingi (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix (Patula) spaldingi Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [103].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C55501 4 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A115 5 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A115ii 18 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A115iii 10 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A115iv 1 specimen, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM C55502 7 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM C55503 2 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD; AM(MMUS) A115i 23 specimens, Cape York and Albany, Bet, Sue, Coconut and Warrior Ils, Torres Strait, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [50].
• Helix (Patula) spaldingi carinata Brazier, J. 1880. List of the land shells found on Thursday Island, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 392-396 [May 1880] [393] [non Helix carinata Montagu, 1803].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C55504 2 specimens, Thursday Is., Torres Strait, QLD; AM C8904 2 specimens, Thursday Is., Torres Strait, QLD.
• Torresiropa mella Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [54] [nom. nov. for Helix (Patula) spaldingi carinata Brazier, 1880].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] (based on original descriptions and an examination of types)

 

Generic Combinations

• Torresiropa spaldingi (Brazier, 1876). —
  Solem, A. 1959. On the family position of some Palau, New Guinea, and Queensland land snails. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 88: 151-158 [156] (changed combination as type species of Torresiropa)

 

Introduction

Torresiropa spaldingi is distinguished by the combination of peripheral keel, very wide umbilicus and sculpture of coarse radial ribs on the teleoconch.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York and the Torres Strait islands, FN QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Under litter, under rocks, vine thicket.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small, dull tawny-yellow to pale pinkish-brown, trochoidal to depressedly turbinate, body whorl periphery strongly angular with ridge or keel, sutures deeply impressed, spire domed; protoconch with curved radial ridges, teleoconch sculpture of strong coarse, regular radial ribs; umbilicus extremely wide, U-shaped; diameter 5.5mm.

 

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. [156]

 

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]

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. [156]

 

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. [156] (Torres Islands Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2022	HELICINA	04-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
03-Jan-2013		03-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)