Pseudocharopa whiteleggei Brazier in Etheridge, 1889
Whitelegge's pinwheel snail, Whitelegge's land snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hemistomia whiteleggei (Brazier, 1889); Bythinella whiteleggei (Brazier, 1889)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered
Bythinella whiteleggei was considered "probably extinct" by (Ponder, 1982). A live individual was found in 2016 (source).
Distribution
Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Ecosure. (2009). Prioritisation of high conservation status of offshore islands. Report to the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Prepared by Ecosure, Cairns, Queensland. xii + 368 pp.
Hyman, Isabel T. and Köhler, F. (2020). A Field Guide to the Land Snails of Lord Howe Island. Australian Museum.
Iredale, Tom. (1944). The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. Australian Zoologist 10: 299-334.
Köhler, Frank and Hyman, Isabel. (2018). The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017—land snail fauna. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, Online 26: 45-51. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.26.2018.1705
Ponder, Winston F. (1982). Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33(1): 89-159. [Abstract]
https://australian.museum/blog/amri-news/recovery-and-discovery-rare-snails-on-lord-howe-island/