The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 03 (of 10)
Cooke, A. H. (Alfred Hands)
Animals
_Tasmania._--About 80 species of land Mollusca are known, not more than
10 being common with Australia. No land operculates occur; _Endodonta_
and _Charopa_ are rare, and _Hadra_ has entirely disappeared, but
_Pupa_ and _Succinea_ occur. Carnivorous genera are represented by
_Paryphanta_, _Rhytida_, and _Rhenea_. _Anoglypta_ is a peculiar
section of _Helix_, while _Caryodes_, _Cystopelta_, and _Helicarion_
are common with Australia. Among the fresh-water Mollusca are a
_Gundlachia_ (see p. 345), and some forms of _Amnicola_ or _Hydrobia_,
one of which (_Potamopyrgus_) is common only with New Zealand.[373]
_The Neozealanian Province._--The Mollusca of New Zealand, with the
Kermadec, Chatham, and Auckland Is., are remarkably isolated. Such
genera as _Nanina_, _Partula_, _Pupa_, _Stenogyra_, _Succinea_,
_Vaginula_, _Truncatella_, _Helicina_, and _Navicella_, which might
have been expected to occur, are entirely absent. The bulk of the
land Mollusca are small and obscure forms, perhaps remains of a very
early type, and appear to belong to the Zonitidae, neither _Patula_
nor _Helix_ occurring at all. The carnivorous forms are represented
by _Schizoglossa_, a peculiar genus akin to _Daudebardia_, by
_Paryphanta_, an extraordinary group of large shells with a thick
leathery epidermis, and by _Rhytida_ and _Rhenea_. In spite of its
extreme isolation, the general relations of the fauna are partly
with New Caledonia, partly with E. Australia. The occurrence of
_Placostylus_ has already been mentioned (p. 323), and three species of
_Janella_, a genus which also occurs in Queensland and New Caledonia,
indicate the same affinity. _Otoconcha_ is peculiar. The fresh-water
Mollusca, besides the _Isidora_ characteristic of the sub-region, are
partly related to New Caledonia through the occurrence of _Melanopsis_,
partly to Tasmania through _Potamopyrgus_, while the peculiar _Latia_
is possibly akin to _Gundlachia_ (Tasmania). The land operculates
number only 5 genera and 14 species in all, excluding a doubtful
_Diplommatina_.[374]
_Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of the Neozealanian Province_
Schizoglossa 1
Paryphanta 5
Rhytida 6
Rhenea 2
Helicarion 1
Otoconcha 1
Microcystis 1
Trochonanina 1
Phacussa 3
Thalassohelix 5
Gerontia 2
Allodiscus 10
Pyrrha 1
Therasia 7
Phenacohelix 3
Suteria 1
Flammulina 13
Laoma 23
Endodonta 10
Charopa 28
Placostylus 1
Carthaea 1
Tornatellina 1
Janella 3
Latia 2
Ancylus 2
Limnaea 5
Amphipeplea 2
Planorbis 1
Isidora 7
Melanopsis 2
Potamopyrgus 4
Paxillus 1
Lagochilus 7
Omphalotropis 1
Realia 4
Hydrocena 1
Unio 9
Sphaerium 1
Pisidium 2
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