Species Gastrocopta pedicula (Shuttleworth, 1852)

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• Pupa pediculus 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] [296].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP 83161, Marquesas.

  Secondary source:

   Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [486].
• Pupa artensis Montrouzier, R.P. 1859. Description d'espèces novelles (1). Journal de Conchyliologie 7: 286-289 [288, pl. 8, fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, not located, New Caledonia, 'l'ile Art'.
• Pupa moretonensis Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp. [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C161281 2 specimens, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Pupa (Vertigo) rossiteri Brazier, J. 1875. Descriptions of eight species of Australian and Tasmanian land and freshwater shells. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 17-20 [27 Apr. 1875] [18].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C42352 3 specimens, Picton, NSW; AM(MMUS) A135 4 specimens, Picton, NSW; ANSP 115539, Picton, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [49].
• Gastrocopta pediculus ovatula Moellendorff, O.F. von 1890. Die Landschnecken-Fauna der Insel Cebu. Bericht über die Senckenbergischen Naturforschende Gesellschaft 1890: 189-292 [253].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM 87541, Philippines "ad vicum Guadalupae insulae Cebu".
• Gastrocopta pediculus queenslandica Pilsbry, H.A. 1917. in Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences Ser. 2 Vol. 24. [Pt 94 pp. 113–176 18 July 1917; Pt 95 pp. 177–256 9 Nov. 1917; Pt 96 pp. 257–380] [159, pl. 26, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 115630a, Calliungal [=Mt Morgan], QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM C42023 1 specimen, Calliungal [=Mt Morgan], QLD; AM C14260 many specimens, Calliungal [=Mt Morgan], QLD; ANSP 115630, Calliungal [=Mt Morgan], QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Iredale, T. 1937. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. The Australian Zoologist 8: 287-333 [12 Mar. 1937] [301].
• Gastrocopta simplex Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [484, figs. 42-45].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 134–84, N bank floodplain of Pentecost River at El Questro Homestead, SW of Wyndam, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM numerous specimens; FMNH numerous specimens; QM numerous specimens; NMV numerous specimens; AM C170785 3 specimens; SAMA numerous specimens; AM C125695 1 specimen; AM C126116 31 specimens; AM C150387 20+ specimens; AM C095265 5 specimens; AM C161132 3 specimens; AM C161131 22 specimens; AM C161130 7 specimens; AM C161129 11 specimens; AM C161128 12 specimens; AM C161127 14 specimens; AM C161126 19 specimens; AM C161125 18 specimens; AM C161124 10 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Systematics, affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2(4): 455-604 [486]
• Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1089]

 

Generic Combinations

• Gastrocopta pediculus (Shuttleworth, 1852).

 

Introduction

Gastrocopta pediculus is a common and widespread species living in a wide variety of habitats. It is distinguished from other Gastrocopta spp. by a combination of the relatively weakly developed apertural barriers and the horizontal columellar lamella.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Sydney, NSW to FN Qld. Elsewhere across northern Australia to the Kimberley, N WA. Also found across the islands of the central and western Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, litter, litter-dwelling, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral vegetation

 

Diagnosis

Shell tiny, translucent drab white, pupiform, smooth; aperture quadrate to subquadrate with up to six barriers: a prominent parieto-angular, a horizontal columellar, and a lower palatal, occasionally with weak upper palatal lamellae, as well as basal and infraparietal denticles; height to 3.2mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1089-1091]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [102]

 

General References

Köhler, F., Kessner, V. & Whisson, C. 2012. New records of non-marine, non-camaenid gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from islands off the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 21-39 [27]

Pokryszko, B.M. 1996. The Gastrocoptinae of Australia (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea): systematics, distribution and origin. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1085-1150 [1089-1091]

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [102, 566]

 

Common Name References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [102] (Weakly Toothed Pupasnail)

 

History of changes

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