Genus Victaphanta Iredale, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Victaphanta Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [40].

  Type species:

   Nanina atramentaria Shuttleworth, 1853 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Smith, B.J. 1969. A comparative study of two Australian paryphantid snails, with notes on their taxonomic relationships. pp. 164-169 in Rao, K.V. (ed.). Marine Biological Association of India, Symposium on Mollusca. Pt 1. Mandapan Camp : Marine Biological Association of India. [164].
• Melavitrina Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [40].

  Type species:

   Vitrina milligani Pfeiffer, 1853 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1972. Tasmanian snails referred to the genus Victaphanta (Stylomatophora : Paryphantidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 33: 111-114 [111]

 

Introduction

Victaphanta is distinguished among the Australian rhytidids by having a globosely ear-shaped shell that contains little calcium. The position of V. lampra within the genus is considered problematic (Smith, 1979).

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Shell large, glossy, subglobose to globose, ear-shaped with a low-domed spire, whorls rounded; protoconch smooth; teleoconch sculpture of irregular radial growth undulations and fine spirally arranged wrinkles or with radial ribs only on upper surface, smooth below; umbilicus closed to very narrowly open. Colour black to olive-brown and glossy with yellowish spire to reddish-brown with a pale yellow umbilical area.

 

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. [114-117]

 

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. [304-305]

Smith, B.J. & Kershaw, R.C. 1972. Tasmanian snails referred to the genus Victaphanta (Stylomatophora : Paryphantidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 33: 111-114

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. [114-117]

 

History of changes

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