Sauroconcha gulosa

Illawarra Forest Snail at Broughton Vale, NSW

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Identification history

Sauroconcha gulosa	30 Apr 2024	trevorpreston
Pommerhelix mastersi	30 Apr 2024	michaelb
Pommerhelix mastersi	5 Jul 2019	Jenjen
Pommerhelix mastersi (Cox, 1864)	17 Dec 2018	MarjApt
Meridolum gulosum	4 Oct 2018	Nivlek

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Significant sighting

trevorpreston noted:

30 Apr 2024

This is the first Sighting of this native snail species for South Coast Nature Map.

User's notes

In ground litter in riparian forest c.23mm dia.

5 comments

MarjApt wrote:

18 Dec 2018

I wondered if it might be Pommerhelix mastersi (Cox, 1864) n.comb. by S.A.Clark (2009): A review of the land snail genus Meridolum (Gastropoda: Camaenidae) from central New South Wales, Australia. Molluscan Research 29(2): 61-120. Available free online. Clark reports P. mastersi (formerly Helix, then Meridolum mastersi) from the South Coast at numerous sites between south of Merimbula and Jervis Bay. I found a similar specimen recently inland from Batemans Bay.

Michael123 wrote:

30 Apr 2024

from that location could only be Sauroconcha gulosum

Michael123 wrote:

30 Apr 2024

Sauroconcha gulosum - new combination reference 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 [nomenclatural availability 23 Feb. 2020]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2020.1724603 [details]

trevorpreston wrote:

30 Apr 2024

Is that the same as Sauroconcha gulosa, Illawarra Forest Snail?

Michael123 wrote:

30 Apr 2024

oops spelling, yes it is Sauroconcha gulosa (A. Gould, 1846)

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