Species Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, 1863

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• Triboniophorus graeffei Humbert, A. 1863. Études sur quelques mollusques terrestres nouveaux ou peu connus. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 109-128 [119].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Wollongong, NSW.
• Triboniophorus schuttei Keferstein, W. 1865. Ueber die zweitentakeligen landschnecken (Janella, Aneita, Triboniophorus). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 15: 76-85 [84].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Sydney, NSW.
• Triboniophorus krefftii Keferstein, W. 1865. Ueber die zweitentakeligen landschnecken (Janella, Aneita, Triboniophorus). Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 15: 76-85 [85].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Sydney, NSW
  Comment: No preserved material that could be assigned to this name was found in ZMUG after intensive research in January 2018 (Barker 2018).

  Secondary source:

   Barker, G.M. 2018. Nomenclatural and type catalogue of Athoracophoridae (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Succineoidea): a synopsis of the first 185 years of biodiscovery in the South West Pacific region. Zootaxa 4434(2): 201–249 [226].
• Aneitea graeffei rosea Hedley, C. 1893. An enumeration of the Janellidae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 25: 156-162 [May 1893] [161].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Mt Bellenden-Ker and Proserpine River, QLD
  Comment: Grimpe & Hoffmann (1925: 454) intended to restrict the type locality to the summit of Mount Bellenden Ker, and Iredale (1938: 122) to “Bellendenker Mountains, Queensland”, but such action is invalid under Code, Arts. 73.2.3, 76.1 (see Barker 2018).

  Secondary source:

   Grimpe, G. & Hoffmann, H. 1925. Die Nacktschnecken von Neu-Caledonien, den Loyalty-Inseln und den Neuen-Hebriden. Nova Caledonia Zoologie 3(10): 339–476, pls. 5–6 [454]; 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] [122]; Barker, G.M. 2018. Nomenclatural and type catalogue of Athoracophoridae (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Succineoidea): a synopsis of the first 185 years of biodiscovery in the South West Pacific region. Zootaxa 4434(2): 201–249 [234].
• Triboniophorus brisbanensis Pfeiffer, W. 1900. Die Gattung Triboniophorus. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Abt. f. Anat.) 13: 293-358 [295] [original description inadequate for identification; with examination of neither the type material nor fresh material, Grimpe & Hoffmann (1924) transferred Triboniophorus brisbanensis to Aneitea, which suggested to Iredale (1938) that it is an introduced species.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Brisbane, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Grimpe, G. & Hoffmann, H. 1924. Diagnosen neuer Athoracophoriden (Gastropod. Pulm.). Zoologischer Anzeiger 58: 171-177 [20 Jan. 1924]; 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] [122].

 

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] [122]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Fungivore, open forest, tall closed forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Dry schlerophyll/ wet schlerophyll.

 

General References

Burch, J.B. 1968. Tentacle retraction in Tracheopulmonata. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(11): 62-67 (morphology)

Pfeiffer, W. 1900. Die Gattung Triboniophorus. Zoologische Jahrbücher (Abt. f. Anat.) 13: 293-358 (anatomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		21-Feb-2012	MODIFIED