Species Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, I.T. 2007. Three new genera and five new species of Helicarionidae from southeastern Australia (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). Molluscan Research 27(2): 89-104.

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.446474 (complex notophyll vine forest), c. 25 km NE of Kyogle, off Forest Rd, Wiangarie State Forest, NSW [28
  º23' S, 153º
  6' E].
  Paratype(s) AM C.334361, same as holotype.

  Type locality references:

  Hyman, I.T. 2007. Three new genera and five new species of Helicarionidae from southeastern Australia (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicarionoidea). Molluscan Research 27(2): 89-104 [97].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Gibraltar Range NP, NE NSW to Gympie, SE Qld

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Rainforest, under litter, vine thicket.

 

Diagnosis

Shell small to medium-sized, pale pink to white to light brown, depressedly trochoidal; whorls 5.5-6.2, subangulate to almost rounded; protoconch and teleoconch with fine, crowded, incised spiral lines; umbilicus minute; diameter to 13 mm.

 

General References

Hyman, I.T. & Köhler, F. 2018. A revision of eastern Australian land snails placed in Nitor Gude (Helicarionidae, Stylommatophora). Invertebrate Systematics 32: 1171–1205 [1197] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018	HETEROBRANCHIA	16-Nov-2018	MODIFIED
05-Feb-2014	HELICARIONIDAE	03-Apr-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic (BAAM)
		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED