Species Victaphanta atramentaria (Shuttleworth, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nanina atramentaria Shuttleworth, R.J. 1852. Nach obigem Zusatz zur Fauna der Canarischen Inseln, lasse ich einige Diagnosen unbeschriebener Arten meiner Sammlung, aus verschiedenen Ländern herstammend, folgen. Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern 1852(260-261): 294–304 [Aug. 1852] [194].

  Type data:

   Neotype NMV F27376, Gentle Annie Camp at junction of Labertouche, Neerim and Powelltown roads, VIC, (as Port Philip).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Smith, B.J. 1970. Notes on the anatomy of Victaphanta atramentaria Shuttleworth and V. compacta Cox & Hedley, and the designation of a neotype for V. atramentaria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 13-21 [14].

 

Generic Combinations

• Victaphanta atramentaria (Shuttleworth, 1852). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [40]

 

Introduction

Victaphanta atramentaria has a larger and flatter shell compared to that iof V. compacta which occurs further west. Animal blue-black above with orange/red foot border.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Central Divide.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Tall forest.

 

Diagnosis

Shell large, black with paler yellowish spire, depressedly globose,whorls rounded; protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculpture of coarse spirally arranged branching wrinkles with additional strong growth ridges developing on body whorl; umbilicus very narrow to closed; diameter 30-35mm.

 

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]

 

General References

Laws, H.M. 1971. The chromosomes of some Australasian Paryphantidae. Malacologia 11: 217-224 (cytogenetics)

Smith, B.J. 1970. Notes on the anatomy of Victaphanta atramentaria Shuttleworth and V. compacta Cox & Hedley, and the designation of a neotype for V. atramentaria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 13-21 (anatomy)

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]

 

History of changes

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