Setobaudinia nicolasi—a new species from Baudin Island, Kimberley, Western Australia (Stylommatophora, Camaenidae)

ABSTRACT

A new species of Setobaudinia Iredale, 1933 (family Camaenidae Pilsbry, 1895) from the Kimberley region in Western Australia is described. Setobaudinia nicolasi n. sp. is endemic to Baudin Island, off the northwestern coast of Australia, where it occurs in sympatry with at least another three confamilial land snails. The new species is distinguished from other Setobaudinia species by a unique combination of features of its shell (low elevation and weak lip expansion) and male genitalia (inner penial wall sculpture of interlocking filaments).

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KEYWORDS:

• Endemic
• Gastropoda
• Helicoidea
• island
• Pulmonata
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

We owe very special thanks to Jochen Gerber (FMNH) and Corey Whisson (WAM) for smoothly and promptly handling our loan request. We thank Sue Lindsay (Macquarie University, Sydney) for helping with photography and SEM work. Thanks are also due to John Stanisic (QM) and Winston Ponder (AM) for helpful comments on an earlier manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work has been made possible through financial support from the Australian Government (ABRS grants RF211–10 and RF213-12 to FK).