Nitor pudibunda is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicarionidae. This species is endemic to Australia.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | N. pudibunda
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| Nitor pudibunda Cox, 1868[1]
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Description
editCox's description of the shell of a specimen of N. pudibunda, published in A Monograph of Australian Land Shells, 1868.[1]α
Shell perforated, depressly-turbinate, thin and transparent, very smooth, showing under the lens very faint curved lines, and traces of still fainter spiral lines, shining, pinkish or flesh coloured; spire broadly conical, rather acute; 6 whorls, flatly convex, last not descending in front, the periphery shewing nearly obsolete traces of a keel, below convex, glossy, generally opaquely milky-white about the umbilicus, which is minute and shallow; aperture diagonal, somewhat squarely-lunar, pearly within; peristome simple, acute, columellar margin very slightly triangularly dilated and reflected above. In old age, white and callous.
Diameter 0.65[1.651cm]; height 0.55[1.397cm] of an inch.
Habitat. Richmond River.— MacGillivray. Moreton Bay.— Masters.
The smoothness, want of carina, pinkish colour, and callous columella are the chief points of distinction between this and H. Moretonensis and H. subrugata.β
Distribution
editThe species is found in eastern Australia, most commonly along the coasts of Queensland and New South Wales, from Cooloola to Lismore.[2][4][5][6]
Notes and references
editNotes
edit- ^α Text contains some minor corrections and updates; no spaces before semicolons, showing instead of shewing, "." as decimal mark instead of "·", etc...
- ^β In the publication Cox refers to Helix subrugata and Helix Moretonensis, meaning Nitor subrugata and Nitor moretonensis respectively. Helix subrugata and Helix moretonensis are accepted synonyms.
References
edit- ^ a b c Cox, J.C. 1868. A Monograph of Australian Land Shells. Sydney : Maddock 111 pp.
- ^ a b Catalogue of Life: 2009 Annual Checklist — Nitor pudibunda
- ^ Atlas of Living Australia — Nitor pudibunda — Names
- ^ Australian Government
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities | Nitor pudibunda - ^ Discover Life — Nitor pudibunda — partial distribution map
- ^ ZipcodeZoo.com — Nitor pudibunda
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