Austrochloritis

Austrochloritis sp., copyright Catching the Eye.

Belongs within: Helicoidei.

Austrochloritis is a genus of snails found in southeastern Australia with a teleoconch sculpture including periostracal setae and wavy ridgelets (Stanisic et al. 2010).

Characters (from Stanisic et al. 2010): Shell small to large, subdiscoidal to turbinate with a flat to elevated spire; whorls rounded, shouldered to angulate or keeled, sutures moderately to strongly impressed; protoconch sculpture of scattered pustules and vague rugose radial ridges, teleoconch sculpture of coarse radial ridges to smooth, with curved or straight, crowded to widely spaced periostracal setae, microsculpture of wavy periostracal ridgelets; lip reflected, often with a sulcus and swelling immediately behind; umbilicus very narrow to moderately open, V-shaped. Colour dark to light brown, lip white to brown. Animal dark grey or black to orange-brown.

<==Austrochloritis Pilsbry 1890 SS10
    |--*A. porteri (Cox 1866) [=Helix porteri] SS10
    |--A. abbotti Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. abrotonus Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. ascensa Iredale 1943 SS10
    |--A. ballengarra Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. bellengerensis (Cox 1871) [incl. Helix bellingenensis Brazier 1871] SS10
    |--A. brevipila (Pfeiffer 1849) [incl. Chloritis novocambrica Gude 1906] SS10
    |--A. congarinni Stanisic & Potter in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. cunninghamiana Stanisic & Potter in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. disjuncta (Gude 1906) SS10
    |--A. illawarra Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. iluka Stanisic & Potter in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. kanangra Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. kaputarensis Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. kiparra Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. kosciuszkoensis Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. laurieton Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. liverpoolensis Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. marksandersi Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. metuenda Iredale 1938 SS10
    |--A. monita Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. nambucca Iredale 1943 SS10
    |--A. niangala Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. nundinalis Iredale 1943 SS10
    |--A. paucisetosa Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. seaviewensis Stanisic & Potter in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. speculoris Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. stanisici Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. sydneyensis Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. timorensis Stanisic in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. toonumbar Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    |--A. warrumbunglensis Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10
    `--A. wollemiensis Shea & Griffiths in Stanisic, Shea et al. 2010 SS10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[SS10] Stanisic, J., M. Shea, D. Potter & O. Griffiths. 2010. Australian Land Snails vol. 1. A. field guide to eastern Australian species. Bioculture Press: Mauritius.