identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03978791FFACFFDCFC89EA91FD30F887.text	03978791FFACFFDCFC89EA91FD30F887.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Camaenidae Pilsbry 1895	<div><p>Family Camaenidae Pilsbry, 1895</p><p>Genus Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (type species: Helix porteri Cox, 1866, by original designation).</p><p>Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (in Pilsbry, 1890 –1891): 262–263; Pilsbry, 1894 (in Pilsbry, 1893 –1895): 121–122, pl. 28, figs 1–2; Gude, 1906: 114–115; Iredale, 1938: 93–95, 1943: 64–65; Solem, 1979: 120–125, Smith, 1992: 116–118; Stanisic et al., 2010: 378–392, 535–537, Stanisic et al. 2018: 258, 557.</p><p>Taxonomic history</p><p>Originally described as infrageneric taxon in Chloritis, Austrochloritis was elevated to full genus rank by Iredale (1938). Next to the type species, A. porteri (Cox, 1866), Pilsbry’s (1891) original definition of Austrochloritis included several eastern Australian species, such as Helix spinei Cox, 1868 (now Mussonena spinei), H. mansueta Reeve, 1854 (now Moretonistes mansueta), H. blackalli Brazier, 1875 (now Gloreugenia blackalli), H. buxtoni Brazier, 1880 (now Patrubella buxtoni), H. brevipila Pfeiffer, 1849 (now Austrochloritis brevipila), H. aridorum Cox, 1866 (now Neveritis aridorum) as well as two species from New Guinea (refer to Stanisic et al., 2010 for the currently accepted taxonomy of eastern Australian Camaenidae). Subsequently, Gude (1906), Iredale (1938, 1943) and Stanisic et al. (2010) described additional species. Iredale (1938) and Stanisic et al. (2010) also transferred several species to other genera. Solem (1979) misidentified a then undescribed species of Austrochloritis as Chloritobadistes victoriae (Cox, 1868) and, based on this misidentification, considered Chloritobadistes Iredale, 1933 as a synonym of Austrochloritis . Rectifying this mistake, Stanisic et al. (2010, 2018) removed Chloritobadistes from the synonymy of Austrochloritis and described the mistaken and up till then unnamed species as A. beecheyi Shea &amp; Griffiths, 2018 . According to the latest taxonomic treatment of Stanisic et al. (2010, 2018), the genus comprises 34 currently accepted species. We agree with the Stanisic et al. (2010) treatment of Chloritobadistes as an available name in accordance with Art. 13.3 of the Code (ICZN 1999), because the original description of Iredale (1933: 49, 58) contains, although a very brief, diagnosis (“In shell features it agrees with the shells of “ Badistes ” = Meridolum ante, but bears hairs. It has a smooth apex…”) as well as a type species designation.</p><p>Diagnosis</p><p>Shell. Small to large in size (D = 14–24 mm), subdiscoidal, subglobose, turbinate or trochoidal with almost flat to moderately elevated spire (H = 4–15 mm), whorls rounded, shouldered, subangulate or keeled, sutures moderately to strongly impressed; umbilicus from moderately open to partially closed, with V-shaped profile; protoconch sculpture of dense to scattered pustulose radial ridges; teleoconch sculpture smooth or with regular radial corrugations and overlying low rounded pustules that support periostracal setae, interstitial microsculpture of fine wavy periostracal ridgelets; lip unreflected to strongly reflected, usually with a distinct sulcus and associated swelling behind; body whorl slightly to strongly descending below whorl plane; lip white to dark reddish brown; colour pale yellow-brown to dark redbrown, with or without a single narrow spiral colour band at mid-whorl, rarely with umbilical colour patch.</p><p>External anatomy. Animal dark grey or black to orangebrown; retractable head wart near inner bases of ocular tentacles present, varying in size.</p><p>Reproductive anatomy. Penis with or without a penial sheath, internally with vergic papilla that may have a very elongated to short conical or blunt tip, open laterally and apically, or have one lobe fastened to the penis wall and another free lobe; inner penial wall supporting irregular longitudinal interlocking ridges and pustulations of various lengths; penial retractor muscle inserting near mid-epiphallus; epiphallus rather long with or without very short to rather long finger-like caecum; vas deferens entering head of epiphallus through simple pore; vagina with prominent longitudinal anastomosing pilasters, usually thickened around entrance decreasing in prominence apically; bursa copulatrix moderately long (equal to length of oviduct) to very long (longer than oviduct), with multi-folded or looped shaft (twice as long as oviduct, or longer), with oval shaped head, aligned against terminal end of spermoviduct; free oviduct short; hermaphroditic duct inserting into head of talon.</p><p>Comparative remarks</p><p>Austrochloritis is distinguished from other eastern Australian camaenids by the combination of pale to dark brown discoidal to turbinate to trochoidal shell with pustulose radial wrinkles on protoconch, closely spaced curved to straight to strap-like pointed periostracal setae on teleoconch and typical reproductive characters, such as a rather long bursa copulatrix with multi-folded or looped shaft and oval shaped head, aligned against terminal end of spermoviduct, a long epiphallus, usually with caecum, and a free vergic papilla of the penis.</p><p>Distribution</p><p>From SE Victoria (Wilson’s Promontory and Mt Donna Buang) to SE Queensland (Mt Tamborine). Mainly coastal and sub-coastal, but ranging as far west as Warrumbungle Range in central New South Wales; from near sea level to altitudes of up to c. 1,700 m in the Snowy Mountains .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03978791FFACFFDCFC89EA91FD30F887	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Shea, Michael;Köhler, Frank	Shea, Michael, Köhler, Frank (2019): Towards a Systematic Revision of the Eastern Australian Land Snail Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae): Re-description of its Type Species, A. porteri (Cox, 1866). Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4): 111-120, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1699
03978791FFAFFFDAFC5DE8B9FBF6F870.text	03978791FFAFFFDAFC5DE8B9FBF6F870.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Austrochloritis porteri (Cox 1866)	<div><p>Austrochloritis porteri (Cox, 1866)</p><p>Helix porteri Cox, 1866: 373 [publ. 5 Sep]; Hedley, 1890: 249–250, pl. 15.</p><p>Chloritis (Austrochloritis) porteri .—Pilsbry, 1891 (in 1890–1891): 263, pl. 58, figs 23–24; Pilsbry, 1894 (in 1893–95): 121, pl. 28, figs 1–4; Zilch, 1966: 299.</p><p>Austrochloritis porteri .— Iredale, 1938: 94; Stanisic et al. 2010: 390.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>Type material. Neotype, herein designated, AM C.24556 from New South Wales, Upper Richmond River, Booyong, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.44806&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.75" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.44806/lat -28.75)">Pearces Ck</a>, 28°45'00"S 153°26'53"E (leg. 1906) (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Non-type material. NEW SOUTH WALES: Upper Richmond River, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Booyong</a>, Pearces Ck, 28°45'00"S 153°26'53"E (AM C.557014); Upper Richmond River, 28°30'30"S 152°59'E (AM C.334934–35); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Wilson River</a>, tributary of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Richmond River</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Booyong</a>, 28°44'53"S 153°26'53"E (AM C.112291); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Richmond River</a> (AM C.33390, AM C.339397, AM C.334941, AM C.334943 – 45); 25 km NE of Kyogle, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Wiangarie</a> SF, off Forest Rd, 28°23'23"S 153°6'24"E (AM C.339394, AM C.339744); Whian Whian SF, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Red Scrub Flora Reserve</a>, 28°38'12"S 153°19'48"E (AM C.339391, AM C.339745); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Whian Whian SF</a>, Terania Ck, Mackays Rd, 28°35'S 153°19'E (AM C.339395–96, AM C.339743); E of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Mullumbimby</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Huonbrook</a>, upper Coopers Ck, 28°33'S 153°21'E (AM C.334959); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Mt Warning</a>, track to summit, 50–100m from carpark, 28°23'55"S 153°16'59"E (AM C.463198, AM C.463214); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Mt Warning</a>, 28°24'S 153°16'11"E (AM C.136825); banks of the <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Richmond River</a> at Casino, 28°52'S 153°03'E (AM C.137773); SE of Lismore, near Alstonville, Victoria Park, 28°54'S 153°24'30"E (AM C.363835); Byron Bay, 28°39'S 153°37'E (AM C.31218, AM C.339398); E of Lismore, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Wollongbar</a>, 28°49'S 153°24'E (AM C.334946); SW of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Murwillumbah</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Byangum</a>, 28°21'30"S 153°21'37"E (AM C.334948, C.334950); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.05&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.866667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.05/lat -28.866667)">Tweed River</a>, 28°18'S 153°27'E (AM C.55539) . QUEENSLAND: Lamington NP, Binna Burra, Bellbird Circuit, 28°12'S 153°11'E (AM C.363837, AM C.444258, AM C.363842 – 43, AM C.512604); Lamington NP, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.23334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.216667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.23334/lat -28.216667)">Binna Burra Guest House</a>, 28°11'46"S 153°11'20"E (AM C.363837, AM C.363842–43, AM C.444258); Lamington NP, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.23334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.216667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.23334/lat -28.216667)">O’Reilly’s Camp Ground</a>, 28°13'54"S 153°08'01"E (AM C.129249); Numinbah Valley Rd, 1 km S of Natural Arch, 28°14'21"S 153°14'17"E (AM C.474737); NW of Murwillumbah, nr Springbrook, 28°14'07"S 153°16'38"E (AM C.444266); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.23334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.216667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.23334/lat -28.216667)">Currumbin Valley</a>, 28°08'S 153°29'E (AM C.444267); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.23334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.216667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.23334/lat -28.216667)">Currumbin</a>, 4 miles W of coast, 28°8'S 153°25'19"E (AM C.363858); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=153.23334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-28.216667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 153.23334/lat -28.216667)">Collins Gap</a>, Mt Lindsay Hwy, 28°20'S 152°42'E (AM C.444259); Natural Bridge NP, 28°13'S 153°14'E (AM C.129279) .</p><p>Nomenclatural and taxonomic remarks</p><p>The original type material could not be traced in the AM, nor in the QM, NMV, ZMB, SMF, NHMUK, and is considered lost. Cox’s types have generally been deposited in the collection of the Australian Museum. Indeed, other historic shell material collected by both Porter and Macgillivray in northern NSW in or before 1866 is still extant in this collection. Repeated efforts by various persons (Alan Solem, John Stanisic, ourselves) to find type material at the AM or other institutions have been unsuccessful. No types are known or suspected to be kept in other museums. Zilch (1966) did not report any types to be held by the SMF.</p><p>The original description was based on material collected by two different collectors at two separate sites: “Upper Clarence River at Guy Faux Station (Porter)”and “Upper Richmond River, at Cowlong […] (Macgillivray)”. Using contemporary georeferenced materials, we have located these two sites with reasonable precision. The first site is Guy Fawkes Station, N of Ebor and W of Point Lookout within the uppermost Clarence River catchment (c. 30°21'00"S 152°22'12"E). The second is NE of Lismore, S of Booyong (c. 28°46'12"S 153°25'12"E) (Fig. 2). Both locations are about 230 km apart from each other. Since the type material was collected in 1866, the original forest cover that existed at this time has largely been destroyed through clearing for agriculture. However, we have examined material from as close to these two locations as possible and found that the Austrochloritis species found near one (Guy Fawkes) is not identical with that found near the other site (Cowlong) even though they are both similar in external appearance. It is not impossible to identify A. porteri among these two species based on the diagnosis given in the original description. In order to remove the uncertain identity of Helix porteri Cox, 1866, to stabilize this taxonomic name and to fix the type locality, we here designate a neotype in accordance with Art. 75 of The Code (ICZN, 1999) and provide an updated diagnosis.</p><p>Hedley (1890) and Pilsbry (1894) published descriptions and figures of the digestive and reproductive anatomy and attributed these to A. porteri . Hedley’s (1890) material originated from near Brisbane, which is not very close to any of the two original locations. The whereabouts of Pilsbry’s (1894) material have remained uncertain. Stanisic et al. (2010) reported the species to be distributed from SE of Lismore (Victoria Park, NSW) to W of Gold Coast (Springbrook, Qld). This distribution incorporates the second site mentioned in the original description (Cowlong), but not the first. By contrast, the species occurring at the first site, Guy Fawkes Station, has subsequently been described as A. speculoris Shea &amp; Griffiths, 2010 (see below). To conserve the subsequent use of these two species names, we chose the neotype to come from close to site 2 (Cowlong).</p><p>Description</p><p>Shell (Fig. 1 A–C, Fig. 3). Large (D = 14–24 (average 17.8) mm, H = 10–15 (average 12) mm; for n = 34 lots), subglobose to turbinate in shape with a low to moderately raised spire, with on average 4.25 rounded to sub-angulate whorl that increase in diameter, sutures moderately impressed; protoconch sculpture of scattered pustules and rugose pustulose radial ridges; teleoconch sculpture of low irregular growth lines with microsculpture of small crowded pustules, periostracal sculpture of crowded short curved setae, microsculpture of wavy periostracal ridgelets; end of last whorl descending below whorl plane; aperture moderately tilted from axis of coiling, with moderately thickened and reflected white outer lip with sulcus behind, columella slope about 45°; umbilicus narrow and partially covered by reflected columella, V-shaped in profile; shell colour from pale reddish brown to dark reddish brown, with or without a narrow reddish brown spiral colour band at whorl periphery.</p><p>General anatomy. A retractable head wart is present at the inner bases of the ocular tentacles.Animal head-foot dark grey.</p><p>Reproductive anatomy (Fig. 4). Penis cylindrical, no penial sheath, inner penial wall with corrugated interlocking longitudinal pilasters, distally giving rise to longitudinal rows of interlocking pilasters; epiphallus cylindrical, about 1.5 to 2 times as long as penis, distal end with well-developed epiphallic flagellum, broad at base, epiphallus tapering to very narrow toward apex, opening into penial lumen through a conical longitudinally grooved (Victoria Park and Binna Burra; Figs4 D,F) to pustulose (Mt Warning; Fig. 4 E), free verge, opening laterally; penial retractor attached to midepiphallus; vas deferens entering head of epiphallus through single pore just below base of epiphallic flagellum; vas deferens quite broad at its junction with apex of epiphallus but later tapering to a narrow tubule; vagina cylindrical, twice as long as penis, inner wall with prominent longitudinal anastomising pilasters usually thickened around vaginal entrance; free oviduct very short; bursa copulatrix long and broad, particularly at its base, folded or kinked several times, about as long as spermoviduct (Victoria Park and Binna Burra; Figs 4A,C) to 1.5 times longer (Mt Warning; Fig. 4B), with inflated bulb-like head, aligning with base of albumen gland; hermaphroditic duct inserting into head of talon.</p><p>Distribution and ecology</p><p>Lives in subtropical rainforests from the Richmond River valley of NE NSW north to the upper Nerang Creek valley of SE Qld. Mainly found at altitudes of up to 900 m on basaltic bedrock; found under logs, rocks and inside sheaths of fallen palm leaves (Fig. 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03978791FFAFFFDAFC5DE8B9FBF6F870	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Shea, Michael;Köhler, Frank	Shea, Michael, Köhler, Frank (2019): Towards a Systematic Revision of the Eastern Australian Land Snail Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae): Re-description of its Type Species, A. porteri (Cox, 1866). Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4): 111-120, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1699
03978791FFAAFFD6FF28E8B9FB8FF87D.text	03978791FFAAFFD6FF28E8B9FB8FF87D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Austrochloritis speculoris Shea & Griffiths 2010	<div><p>Austrochloritis speculoris Shea &amp; Griffiths, 2010</p><p>Austrochloritis speculoris Shea &amp; Griffiths, 2010 (in Stanisic et al. 2010): 384, 536.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>Type material. Holotype QM MO27314 (from NE New South Wales, New England NP, Point Lookout region, 31°22'50"S 152°15'25"E [leg. D. &amp; N. Potter, 8 Mar 1990, under logs]) . Paratypes AM C.378010 (Gladstone SF, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.83916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.481112" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.83916/lat -30.481112)">Reids Ck Rd at Moodys Ck crossing</a>, 3.3 km from Kalang Rd, 30°28'52"S 152°50'21"E) , AM C.339822 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.24&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.573057" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.24/lat -30.573057)">Forest Way</a>, 14.5 km SW Pt Lookout Rd, 30°34'23"S 152°14'24"E) , AM C.339819 (<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.36667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.51" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.36667/lat -30.51)">Styx River</a>, ca. 79 km E Armidale, nr Pt Lookout, 30°30'36"S 152°22'E) .</p><p>Non-type material. NEW SOUTH WALES: New England NP, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Point Lookout</a>, 30°29'23"S 152°24'28"E (AM C.108470); Point Lookout, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Platypus Valley Lookout track</a>, 30°29'20"S 152°24'35"E (AM C.575464); New England NP, near Point Lookout, 30°29'36"S 152°24'23"E (AM C.108368); Oakes SF, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Robinsons Knob Trail</a>, nr Spring Ck, 30°33'S 152°28'23"E (AM C.337911); E of Armidale, W of Ebor, 6.6 km NW of Guy Fawkes intersection, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Sandy Ck</a>, 500m W of sand pit turnoff, 30°23'48"S 152°17'30"E (AM C.108452); E of Armidale, 750 m S of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Lightning Knob</a>, 30°30'55"S 152°10'44"E (AM C.108381); Cathedral Rock NP, northern boundary, 1 km W of Sandy Creek crossing, W of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Ebor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Ebor-Guyra Rd</a>, 30°23'35"S 152°16'33"E (AM C.575456); E of Armidale, E of Jeogla, 800m N of <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Forest Way on Jacks Fire Rd</a>, 30°34'51"S 152°14'46"E (AM C.108365); <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Waterfall Way</a>, 1 km S of junction with Guyra Road,W of Ebor, 30°26'31"S 152°18'58"E (AM C.561044); Oxley Wild Rivers NP, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Youdales</a>, 31°4'19"S 152°15'17"E (AM C.506320); Styx SF, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=152.13333&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-30.679722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 152.13333/lat -30.679722)">Raspberry Rd</a>, Halls Peak Rd crossing, 30°45'18"S 152°2'35"E (AM C.506286); 63 km ESE of Armidale, N of Raspberry Mt, 800m down Raspberry Rd, 30°37'17"S 152°10'30"E (AM C.339820); 63 km ESE Armidale, 15.2 km down Raspberry Rd, 30°40'47"S 152°08'E (AM C.339821) .</p><p>Description</p><p>Shell (Fig 1 D–E, Fig. 5). Medium sized (D = 12–16.5 (average 14.3) mm, H = 8.5–12 (average 10.0) mm, for n = 18 lots), turbinate in shape with moderately raised spire, with on average 4.25 rounded whorls that weakly increase in diameter, sutures moderately impressed, protoconch sculpture of scattered pustules and rugose pustulose radial ridges, teleoconch sculpture of irregular growth lines with microsculpture of crowded pustules, periostracal sculpture of crowded curved setae, microsculpture of wavy periostracal ridgelets; end of last whorl descending below whorl plane, aperture moderately tilted from axis of coiling, with moderately thickened and reflected white to dark red-brown outer lip, columella slope about 45°; umbilicus narrow, partially covered by reflected columella, V-shaped in profile; shell colour from pale yellowish brown to dark reddish brown, with or without a narrow reddish brown spiral band around the whorl periphery.</p><p>External anatomy. Animal head-foot dark grey-brown; with retractable head at inner bases of ocular tentacles.</p><p>Reproductive anatomy (Fig. 6). Penis cylindrical, about as long as vagina, no penial sheath, inner penial wall with corrugated interlocking short longitudinal pilasters, distally giving rise to longitudinal rows of elongate strap-like pilasters; epiphallus cylindrical, about 3 times as long as penis, distal part with short epiphallic flagellum, epiphallus opening into penial lumen through narrow, pointed and finger-like, longitudinally grooved, penial verge, about half as long as penis, opening laterally; penial retractor attached to proximal third of epiphallus; vas deferens entering head of epiphallus through a single pore just below base of epiphallic flagellum; vagina cylindrical, as long as penis, inner wall with very prominent longitudinal anastomising pilasters, usually thickened around vaginal entrance; free oviduct short; bursa copulatrix long and thin and looped or folded several times, twice as long or more than oviduct length, with inflated bulb-like head, aligning with base of albumen gland; hermaphroditic duct inserting into head of talon.</p><p>Comparative remarks</p><p>Both species cannot be confidently distinguished by their shell, which is on average smaller in A. speculoris, but exhibits very similar characteristics otherwise. However, both species differ in some reproductive characters, such as length of the bursa copulatrix relative to length of spermoviduct (longer in A. speculoris), relative length of penis (about equal to vagina in A. porteri, but longer in A. speculoris), length of epiphallus relative to penis (longer in A. porteri), position of the penial retractor muscle (at proximal third of epiphallus in A. porteri, mid-epiphallus in A. speculoris), and relative length of the penial verge (half as long as penis in A. porteri), and the length of the epiphallic flagellum (much longer in A. porteri).</p><p>Distribution and ecology</p><p>Lives in dry to moist sclerophyll forests on the eastern edge of the New England Plateau and escarpment from Gladstone State Forest in the east to the upper Guy Fawkes River drainage north of Ebor and Point Lookout areas in the north to Youdales, Oxley Wild Rivers NP in the south (Fig. 2). Mainly found at altitudes over 900 meters on granitic or basaltic bedrock. Generally found under logs, rocks and shed bark around base of trees.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03978791FFAAFFD6FF28E8B9FB8FF87D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Shea, Michael;Köhler, Frank	Shea, Michael, Köhler, Frank (2019): Towards a Systematic Revision of the Eastern Australian Land Snail Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 (Eupulmonata, Camaenidae): Re-description of its Type Species, A. porteri (Cox, 1866). Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4): 111-120, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1699
