Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Whisson, Corey S., 2012, Annotated type catalogue of Bothriembryon (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in Australian museums, with a compilation of types in other museums, ZooKeys 194, pp. 41-80 : 53

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scientific name	Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894
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Liparus spenceri Tate, 1894 Fig. 7K View Figure 7

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 C.A.".

Dimensions.

"Length, 20; width 12.5 (...) mm"; holotype H 20.0, D 13.36, W 4.5.

Type material.

SAMA D3171, holotype; SAMA D11333, 12 paratypes; SAMA D15578, four paratypes.

Remarks.

This material was collected during the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia in 1894. Further type material is present in the Natural History Museum in London ( Breure and Ablett 2012).

Current systematic position.

Bothriembryontidae, Bothriembryon spenceri (Tate, 1894).

Breure, ASH, Ablett, JD, 2012. Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 182: 1 - 70, 10.3897/zookeys.182.2720

Smith, BJ, 1992. Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston WWK (Ed) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 405 pp.

Tate, R, 1894. Brief diagnoses of Mollusca from Central Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 191 - 194

Tate, R, 1896. Mollusca. In: Spencer WB (Ed) Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, 2. Zoology: 181-226. Melville, Mullen and Slade, London and Melbourne.

Figures

Figure 7. A-E Bothriembryon barretti Iredale, 1939 A Syntype, AM C 56628 (H = 28.1) B Syntype of B. indictus Iredale, 1939, AM C 100730 (H = 28.8) C Syntype of B. distinctus Iredale, 1939, AM C 100727 (H = 26.3) D Syntype of Bulimus industus pallidus Tate, 1879, AM C 477 (H = 31.0) E Holotype of B. multispirus Macpherson, 1951, MV F 5716 (H = 24.2) F B. irvineanus Iredale, 1939, syntype, AM C 100773 (H = 24.2) G B. naturalistarum Kobelt, 1901, syntype, SMF 25891 / 1 a (H = 17.0) Photo: E. Neubert H B. leeuwinensis (E. A. Smith, 1894), syntype of B. leeuwinensis eventus Iredale, 1939, AM C 100771 (H = 22.0) I B. perditus Iredale, 1939, syntype, AM C 100720 (H = 23.2) J B. whitleyi Iredale, 1939, syntype, AM C 100729 (H = 14.4) K B. spenceri (Tate, 1894), holotype, SAM D 3171 (H = 20.0) L B. tasmanicus (Pfeiffer, 1853), holotype of B. gunni brachysoma Pilsbry, 1900, ANSP 8461 (H = 20.4) Photo: A. Lawless.