Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis

Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis
Shells of the Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Camaenidae
Genus:
Gnarosophia
Species:
G. bellendenkerensis
Binomial name
Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis
(Brazier, 1875)[1]
Synonyms[6]
  • Helix beddomae Brazier, 1878[2]
  • Helix bellendenkerensis Brazier, 1875
  • Thersites castanea Odhner, 1917[3]
  • Gnarosophia humoricola Iredale, 1937[4]
  • Thersites pterinus Clench & Archer, 1938[5]

Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

Distribution

This species lives in rainforests in North Queensland, Australia.[7]

The type locality is Bellenden Ker Mountains, Queensland.[1][8]

Description

The height of the shell is 33.08 mm. The width of the shell is 40.19 mm.[7]

Ecology

These snails live in leaf litter or under logs in the mesothermal rainforest.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Brazier, J. (1 June 1875). "Descriptions of ten new species of shells from the collection of Mr C. Coxen, of Brisbane, Queensland". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1875: 31–34.
  2. ^ Brazier, J. (1878). "Descriptions of seven new species of terrestrial and marine shells from Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 3: 77–81. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22217.
  3. ^ Odhner, N. H. (19 September 1917). "Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115. pls. 1–3.
  4. ^ Iredale, T. (12 November 1937). "A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt II". Australian Zoologist 9: 1–39.
  5. ^ Clench, W.J.; Archer, A. F. (1938). "Some new Australian Thersites". Journal of Conchology. 21: 20–24.
  6. ^ http://www.nlbif.nl/species_details.php?name=Gnarosophia+bellendenkerensis Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine accessed 22 October 2009
  7. ^ a b c Hugall A., Moritz C., Moussalli A. & Stanisic J. (2002) "Reconciling paleodistribution models and comparative phylogeography in the Wet Tropics rainforest land snail Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier 1875)" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(9): 6112-7. ISSN 0027-8424 doi:10.1073/pnas.092538699
  8. ^ Species Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier, 1875). Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 16 December 2009.

Further reading

  • Stanisic, J. (2000). "Taxonomy of the Australian rainforest snail, Helix bellendenkerensis Brazier, 1875 (Mollusca: Eupulmonata: Camaenidae)". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 46 (1): 337–348.