Biology:Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Species: | G. bellendenkerensis
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| Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier, 1875)[1]
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
- ↑ 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/22217.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://www.nlbif.nl/species_details.php?name=Gnarosophia+bellendenkerensis accessed 22 October 2009
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3073059 entry
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