Species Victaphanta compacta (Cox & Hedley, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paryphanta compacta Cox, J.C. & Hedley, C. 1912. An index to the land shells of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 4: 5-14 pls i-iii [Feb. 1912] [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C31179, Otway Ranges, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV F690 3 specimens.

 

Generic Combinations

• Victaphanta compacta (Cox & Hedley, 1912). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [40]

 

Introduction

Victaphanta compacta has a smaller, more glossy, globose and compact shell compared to V. atramentaria. Animals are dark grey to black in colour with no red or orange markings.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Otway region.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, predator.

 

Diagnosis

Shell large, black with paler yellowish spire, globose; protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculpture with coarse spirally arranged branching wrinkles on first whorl grading to smooth on final whorl; whorls rounded; umbilicus very narrow to closed; diameter 20-25mm.

 

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

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. [305]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Jan-2013		03-Jan-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)