Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis

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

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]
  • Helix beddomae Brazier, 1878[3]
  • Helix bellendenkerensis Brazier, 1875
  • Thersites castanea Odhner, 1917[4]
  • Gnarosophia humoricola Iredale, 1937[5]
  • Thersites pterinus Clench & Archer, 1938[6]

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. 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. http://www.nlbif.nl/species_details.php?name=Gnarosophia+bellendenkerensis Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine accessed 22 October 2009
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Iredale, T. (12 November 1937). "A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt II". Australian Zoologist 9: 1–39.
  6. Clench, W.J.; Archer, A. F. (1938). "Some new Australian Thersites". Journal of Conchology. 21: 20–24.
  7. 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.
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