Crikey, Stanisic, John, 2009

Stanisic, John, 2009, Crikey steveirwini gen. et sp. nov. from montane habitats in the Wet Tropics of northeastern Queensland, Australia (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Camaenidae), Zootaxa 2206, pp. 62-68 : 63

Crikey gen. nov.

Type species. Crikey steveirwini sp. nov.

Etymology. The world famous ‘catch-cry’ of the ‘Crocodile Hunter’, Steve Irwin.

Diagnosis. Shell turbinate with an elevated spire and rounded whorls; sculpture of numerous strong spiral striae crossed by very weak, axial growth ridges; aperture lunately ovate, lip only weakly thickened; imperforate. Penis without a verge.

Comparative remarks. Anatomically the lack of a penial verge (a structure that directs the sperm or sperm packet during mating) and penial flagellum (a structure usually involved in spermatophore formation) separates Crikey from the other Australian arboreal camaenid genera which all have a well developed, sculptured verge and short to long epiphallic flagellum ( Clench and Turner 1966; Scott 1998; Stanisic unpublished). The absence of a penial verge is apparently rare in the Australian camaenids generally and is elsewhere seen in non-arboreal east coast genera such as Hadra Albers, 1860 , Spurlingia Iredale, 1933 and Jacksonena Iredale, 1937 [from the Wet Tropics, Cape York and Einasleigh Uplands bioregions] ( Solem 1979; Stanisic unpublished).