Invertebrate Zoology - Threatened and Endangered Landsnail species

Threatened and Endangered Landsnail Species

In New South Wales, Australia, there are laws to protect plants and animals that are in danger of extinction. There are also laws to protect endangered populations and ecological communities.

At present only six invertebrate animals have been listed as endangered, three insects and three landsnails. One of these snails, Meridolum corneovirens, is found only in western Sydney in the Cumberland Plain Woodland ecosystem, a prime development site for western Sydney. Since the listing of this species in late 1997 the Australian Museum has had many inquiries about these snails.

Click on images below for some background information on each of the three species.

Meridolum corneovirens

Placostylus bivaricosus

Thersites mitchellae

Information compiled by Dr W.B.Rudman

Further information

Conservation status, threats and habitat requirements
of Australian terrestrial and freshwater mollusca
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General information on these laws and the species and communities already being protected can be found at the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service website
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Threatened and Endangered Landsnail species
Meridolum corneovirens | Placostylus bivaricosus | Thersites mitchellae
Dr Rudman | Molluscs Homepage

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