Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 182, pp. 1-70 : 23

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.182.2720

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894
status

 

Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894 Figs 2J-K, 2v View Figure 2

Liparus spenceri Tate 1894: 192; Tate 1896: 202, pl. 17 fig. 3; B.J. Smith 1992: 107.

Type locality.

[Northern Territory, near Alice Springs] "Glen of Palms by the junction with Palm Creek" ( Tate 1896: 202).

Label.

"Glen of Palms", presumably in Tate’s handwriting.

Dimensions. "Length, 20; width 12.5 (...) mm"; specimen figured herein H 17.5, D 12.2, W 4.4.

Type material.

NHMUK 1895.10.1.202-207, six paratypes (ex W.A. Horn).

Remarks.

This material was collected during the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (1894). Three of the specimens are subadult or juvenile. Further type material is present in the South Australia Museum in Adelaide ( Breure and Whisson in press).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon spenceri (Tate, 1894).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Bothriembryontidae

Genus

Liparus

Loc

Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Ablett, Jonathan D. 2012
2012
Loc

Liparus spenceri

Tate 1894
1894