Species Victaphanta milligani (Pfeiffer, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vitrina milligani Pfeiffer, L. 1853. Descriptions Systematicas et Criticas Omnium huius Familae Generum et Specierum Hodie Cognitarum. Monographie Heliceorum Viventium. Lipsiae : F.A. Brockhaus Vol. 3 711 pp. [May 1853] [4].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1969.2.65, Macquarie harbour, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1969.2.65 2 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [112].
• Helicarion fumosa Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1879. On two new species of land shells. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3(2): 123-126 [27 Feb. 1877] [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C78335, Duck River, N coast, TAS.
  Paratype(s) AM C118022 18 specimens.

  Type locality references:

  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] [116].

 

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 [112]

 

Generic Combinations

• Melavitrina milligani (Pfeiffer, 1853). —
  Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [40]
• Victaphanta milligani (Pfeiffer, 1853). —
  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

 

Introduction

Victaphanta milligani differs from the two Victorian Victaphanta species by the size and the shape of the shell. Animals are bluish-black in colour with an orange/red foot border and mantle edge.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

W TAS.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Tall forest.

 

Diagnosis

Shell large, olive brown to black with yellowish spire, depressedly globose ear-shaped, whorls rounded; protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculpture of concentric spiral wrinkles to smooth; umbilicus closed; diameter 18-24mm.

 

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. [115]

 

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. [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 (anatomy)

 

History of changes

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