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Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 61
Description of a new species of semi-slug Fastosarion comerfordae sp. nov., from Eungella National Park, mid-eastern Queensland (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Helicarionidae)
Stanisic, J.
Published online: 17 May 2018
Citation
Stanisic, J. 2018. Description of a new species of semi-slug, Fastosarion comerfordae sp. nov., from Eungella National Park, mid-eastern Queensland (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Helicarionidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 61: 43–51. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.61.2018.2018-05
Accepted
16 February 2018
Published online
17 May 2018
Peer reviewed
Yes
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.61.2018.2018-05
Keywords
Fastosarion comerfordae sp. nov., Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Helicarionidae, new species, Queensland, Australia
Abstract
A new semi-slug, Fastosarion comerfordae sp. nov., is described from the higher elevations of Eungella National Park in mid-eastern Queensland. Historically the species has been considered to be conspecific with F. superba (Cox, 1871) from Mt Dryander, mid-eastern Queensland. Differences in external animal features and penial anatomy are shown to separate the new species from F. superba.
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