Bothriembryon whitleyi
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Familia: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Bothriembryon
Name
Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type locality
[Western Australia] “Geraldton”.
Label
“Geraldton / WA”.
Dimensions
“Height 16 mm., breadth 12.5 mm.”; figured specimen H 14.4, D 10.0, W 4.5.
Type material
AM C100729, syntype; AM C127615, 31 syntypes; AM C127713, three syntypes; WAM S1368, six syntypes; WAM S15106, one syntype, G.P. Whitley leg.
Remarks
The shell in Fig. 7J is somewhat smaller than Iredale (1939)[1] stated, but agrees with the specimen figured by him; the description is based on “A nice series”. This species is now thought to be extinct (DEC 2010[3]).
Current systematic position
Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon whitleyi Iredale, 1939.
Taxon Treatment
- Breure, A; Whisson, C; 2012: Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums ZooKeys, 194: 41-80. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Iredale T (1939) A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery 2(1): 1–88. [Published 1.viii.1939; same text re-published 21.viii.1939 in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25:1–88 (read before the Society on 13.ix.1938, but publication delayed)].
- ↑ Smith B (1992) Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston WWK (Ed) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp.
- ↑ DEC (2010) Declared threatened fauna. http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,4295/Itemid/ [accessed 25 October 2011]
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