Species Pupisoma porti (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix (Conulus) porti Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [104] [as Helix (Conulus?) porti].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM(MMUS) A110, Albany Is., Torres Strait, QLD.

  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 [50].
• Laoma turbinuloidea Gabriel, C.J. 1930. Catalogue of the land shells of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 43: 62-88 [11 Sept. 1930] [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F709, Bairnsdale, VIC.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [126]

 

Generic Combinations

• Pupisoma porti (Brazier, 1876).

 

Introduction

Pupisoma porti is an arboreal species with a broad eastern Australian distribution. This may be the same species as the widespread, similar looking Indo-Pacific and northern Australian P. orcula (Benson, 1850).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Far north QLD to central NSW and possibly south to Bairnsdale, VIC

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, dry vine thickets, rainforest.

Extra Ecological Information

Living on twigs and branches of shrubs and vines

 

Diagnosis

Shell minute to very small, brown, turbinate with relatively high spire; sculpture of distinct growth lines and finer spiral threads; whorls rounded, sutures deeply impressed; columella moderately broad, sinuous; umbilicus almost closed to closed; height 2mm.

 

Diagnosis 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. [100]

 

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. [294]

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. [100]

 

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. [100] (Tall Toothless Pupasnail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-May-2020	STYLOMMATOPHORA	27-Jul-2021	MODIFIED
24-Jul-2012		24-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
27-Jun-2012		27-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)