Species Sauroconcha gulosum (Gould, 1846)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix gulosa Gould, A. 1846. New species of Helix from the shells of the Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 165-167 [Aug. 1846] [165].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 169181 2 specimens, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW; MCZ 86829 1 specimen, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW; USNM 21067 3 specimens, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84].

  Secondary source:

   Johnson, R.I. 1964. The recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould: Illustrations of the types described by Gould with a bibliography and catalog of his species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 239: 1-182 [87].
• Helix coriaria Pfeiffer, L. 1847. Diagnosen neuer Landschnecken. Malakozoologische Blätter 4: 145-151 [Oct. 1847] [145].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84].
• Helix cailleti Crosse, H. 1864. Diagnoses de mollusques terrestres nouveaux. Journal de Conchyliologie 12: 282-286 [1 July 1864] [285].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 2 specimens, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84].
• Helix cailleti pallidior Crosse, H. 1864. Diagnoses de mollusques terrestres nouveaux. Journal de Conchyliologie 12: 282-286 [1 July 1864] [285].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP no number 1 specimen, Illawarra (Drayton), NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84].
• Helix scotti Cox, J.C. 1864. Catalogue of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : John Alex Engel 44 pp. [36].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown presumed lost, Mt Keira, Wollongong, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84]

 

Generic Combinations

• Meridolum gulosum (Gould, 1846). —
  Iredale, T. 1938. A basic list of the land Mollusca of Australia. Pt III. The Australian Zoologist 9: 83-124 [Date published 30 Nov. 1938] [84] (new combination)
• Sauroconcha gulosum (Gould, 1846). —
  Köhler, F. & Bouchet, P. 2020. On unavailable genus-group names introduced by Tom Iredale for Australian non-marine gastropods: nomenclatural clarifications and descriptions of new genera. Molluscan Research 40(2): 150-159 [153] (changed combination in referring all species of Meridolum Iredale, 1933 to Sauroconcha)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Illawarra coast and escarpment from Bulli to north end of Lake Illawarra, NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Open forest, rainforest, under litter, under logs, under rocks.

Extra Ecological Information

Tall eucalypt forest

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Feb-2014	HELICOIDEA	26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED	Dr John Stanisic
		12-Feb-2010	(import)