Pupilloid Land Snails from the South and Mid-west Coasts of Australia

Abstract

Abstract Pupilloid land snails found in the areas between Kangaroo Island, South Australia and Albany, Western Australia, and then from the Chichester Range and Port Hedland in the Pilbara and North West Cape south to near Morawa, Western Australia are reviewed. Gastrocopta margaretae (Cox, 1868) ( + bannertonensis Gabriel, 1930 and complexa lredale, 1939) ranges from the Lower Murray River basin of Victoria and South Australia west to near Merredin and Albany, Western Australia; G. wallabyensis (Smith, 1894) is known from coastal and island localities in Western Australia from Point Quobba, north of Carnarvon south through Shark Bay and the Houtman Abrolhos to Green Head, just south of Eneabba; G. pilbarana, new species, has been collected from the Chichester Range near Roy Hill Station, the North West Cape, and places in the Shark Bay area (Salutation and Dirk Hartog Islands, Useless Bay); G. deserti Pilsbry, 1917, a species widely distributed in the Red Centre and barely reaching the south fringes of t...