Species Basedowena bethana (Solem, 1997)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleuroxia bethana Solem, A. 1997. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusc: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 50: 1461-1906 [1480] [pls 177a-c, 179a-e; figs 368Bd-f, 369a-b [radula, shell, anatomy]].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 225.84, W bank of Ellendale Pool, near Lookout Hill, SSE of Geraldton, WA.
  Paratype(s) WAM 226.84 several specimens; FMNH 182269 several specimens; AM C338694 2 specimens; AM C338700 6 specimens; AM C338702 4 specimens; AM C338709 5 specimens; AM C338712 1 specimen.

 

Generic Combinations

• Basedowena bethana (Solem, 1997). —
  Criscione, F. & Köhler, F. 2016. Phylogenetic systematics of the land snail Basedowena from the Australian arid zone: taxonomic revision with description of new taxa (Stylommatophora : Camaenidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30: 370-386 [370]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Drainage of the Greenough River and near the mouth of the Murchison River, WA.

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Saxicoline, under rocks.

 

General References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2017. Australian Land Snails. Volume 2. A field guide to southern, central and western species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 2 pp. 580. [for nomenclature purposes, all taxa described in this volume must be dated 2018] [286]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Apr-2023	CAMAENIDAE Pilsbry, 1895	30-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
29-Nov-2016	CAMAENIDAE	17-Nov-2016	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)