Genus Cupedora Iredale, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cupedora Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [34].
• Cupedora Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [48] [nomen nudum; no description provided, Cupedora unavailable from Iredale (1933)].

  Type species:

   Helix (Hadra) lincolnensis Pfeiffer, 1864 by original designation.
• Exilibadistes Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [52] [nomen nudum; no description provided, unavailable from Iredale (1933)].

  Type species:

   Helix bednalli Brazier, 1872 by original designation.
• Exilibadistes Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [29-30].

  Type species:

   Helix bednalli Brazier, 1872 by original designation.
• Meracomelon Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 [52] [nomen nudum; no description provided, unavailable from Iredale (1933)].
• Meracomelon Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [30].

  Type species:

   Helix rufofasciata Brazier, 1875 by original designation.
• Findomelon Iredale, T. 1937. An annotated check list of the land shells of South and Central Australia. South Australian Naturalist 18: 6-59 [30 Sept. 1937] [33].

  Type species:

   Helix luteofusca Cox, 1868 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Solem, A. 1992. Camaenid land snails from southern and eastern South Australia, excluding Kangaroo Island. Pt 1. Systematics, distribution and variation. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 2: 1-338 [23]

Introduction

Smith (1992) gave precedence to Cupedora over the simultaneously described taxa Exilibadistes Iredale, 1937 and Mercatomelon Iredale, 1937, but erroneously considered all three genera to be available from Iredale (1933).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

General References

Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [123] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Solem, A. 1992. Camaenid land snails from southern and eastern South Australia, excluding Kangaroo Island. Pt 1. Systematics, distribution and variation. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 2: 1-338 [23] (revision of genus)

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