Clicky

Lottaropa lottah (Petterd, 1879)

Cataract Gorge snail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Helix lottah Petterd, 1879

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in 2000

 

Distribution

Tasmania, Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Petterd, W. F. (1879). A Monograph of the Land Shells of Tasmania. Privately published, Launceston. vi + 55 pp.

 

Other references:

Bonham, Kevin. (2004). Discocharopa vigens (Legrand, 1871), a threatened Tasmanian charopid land snail. The Tasmanian Naturalist 126: 20-28.

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lottaropa lottah (Petterd, 1879). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1255805 on 2022-03-06

Petterd, W. F., and Hedley, Charles. (1909). A revised census of the terrestrial Mollusca of Tasmania. Records of the Australian Museum 7(4): 283-304, pls. lxxxii-lxxxvii.

https://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/zoology/invertebrata/onlinearchive/onlinetext/inv02-6items.html#02bonham

 

<< Back to the Helicoidei database