Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis
| 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[2] | |
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 2 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.
- ↑ http://www.nlbif.nl/species_details.php?name=Gnarosophia+bellendenkerensis accessed 22 October 2009
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Iredale, T. (12 November 1937). "A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt II". Australian Zoologist 9: 1–39.
- ↑ Clench, W.J.; Archer, A. F. (1938). "Some new Australian Thersites". Journal of Conchology. 21: 20–24.
- 1 2 3 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
- ↑ 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.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.