Ventopelita leucocheilus
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| Ventopelita leucocheilus | trevorpreston | 29 Apr 2025 | |
| Ventopelita leucocheilus | trevorpreston | 29 Apr 2025 | |
| Unverified | MazzV | 24 Apr 2025 |
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A grey snail with off-white almost leopard-style markings on the top of the ‘foot’ (photos 1 & 3). The shell is light brown with a slightly darker brown band at the top, running from front to back on its LHS (photo 2). There is a paler colour, (possibly a double line of it - photo 1), running discontinuously from front to back on the uppermost ridge, then on the RHS, the darker brown becomes light brown again, on the outer most ring of the spiral, (photo 2). All of this, (except the ridge) is peppered with small, even darker brown markings of various shapes. On the RHS, the 2nd outer-most ring of the spiral becomes a reddy-brown and the colour at the centre of the spiral is unclear, being dark with the snail’s body blocking the light. There are no markings on the innermost rings of the spiral. (photo 2)
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28 Apr 2025
Ventopelita leucocheilus (Cox, 1868) Family Camaenidae. Ranges from about Coffs Harbour northward to about Tweed Heads, NE NSW along the coast and ranges. The pictured snail is immature. Live mainly in sclerophyll forest and woodland and in coastal vegetation.
28 Apr 2025
Trevor / MazzV,
Could these images be posted in 'Snails of Australasia' Facebook group ?
Could these images be posted in 'Snails of Australasia' Facebook group ?
29 Apr 2025
Hi @Michael123
Thank you for your consideration in asking (not to mention your interest!!)
I am a 'Facebook-free-zone' for personal reasons. Whilst I am happy for you to use these images on your site, it would be conditional on my not being identified in any way. If there is to be any attribution , can you make it something innocuous, such as a 'NSW Nth Coast contributor to NatureMapr'.
Will that work for you?
Cheers,
MazzV
Thank you for your consideration in asking (not to mention your interest!!)
I am a 'Facebook-free-zone' for personal reasons. Whilst I am happy for you to use these images on your site, it would be conditional on my not being identified in any way. If there is to be any attribution , can you make it something innocuous, such as a 'NSW Nth Coast contributor to NatureMapr'.
Will that work for you?
Cheers,
MazzV
30 Apr 2025
Thanks, MazzV,
Will do. If you would like to send them to my email address, it is
michael.shea@austmus.gov.au
Much appreciated.
Cheers
Michael
Will do. If you would like to send them to my email address, it is
michael.shea@austmus.gov.au
Much appreciated.
Cheers
Michael
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- MazzV Recorded by
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- MazzV NatureMapr Snails & Slugs (Gastropoda) Molluscs (Mollusca) Other Invertebrates Ventopelita leucocheilus Significant Featured
Species information
- Ventopelita leucocheilus Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 69m to 73m Recorded at altitude
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