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Identification history
| Ventopelita leucocheilus | 8 Sep 2025 | Michael123 | ||
| Unverified | 6 Sep 2025 | MazzV |
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A small snail with a fawn shell which has a reddy-tan line tracing around its swirls (photos 3 & 4). There is a ring of white around the outer opening of the shell. The body is a tan-brown colour, with subtle bumps on its surface. as is the head and eye tubes. (photos 1 & 2). The upper outer edges of the body that extend from the sides of the shell are dark brown with cream mottling delineating its surface bumps, as best seen on the upper surface of the tail (photo 5).
4 comments
Michael123
wrote:
8 Sep 2025
MazzV would you like to post this on 'Snails of Australasia' Facebook group ?
MazzV
wrote:
28 Sep 2025
Hi @Michael123 !
Sorry to not get to this sooner, just catching up on a backlog of IDs, comments etc. I'm blown away to find another specimen of this! You are welcome to record this on your 'Snails of Aus' site, and as before, pls omit reference to your source & location beyond specifying 'Copmanhurst area' NSW, and pls attribute it (if that is what you usually do), to an 'anonymous NSW North Coast contributor'. Further info for you: This one was found within a few metres of the 1st one I logged (Sighting 4664136), but there are not the smattering of brown spots on the shell on this one, so I'm tempted to think it is not the same specimen (They were found 1 month apart to the day).
Sorry to not get to this sooner, just catching up on a backlog of IDs, comments etc. I'm blown away to find another specimen of this! You are welcome to record this on your 'Snails of Aus' site, and as before, pls omit reference to your source & location beyond specifying 'Copmanhurst area' NSW, and pls attribute it (if that is what you usually do), to an 'anonymous NSW North Coast contributor'. Further info for you: This one was found within a few metres of the 1st one I logged (Sighting 4664136), but there are not the smattering of brown spots on the shell on this one, so I'm tempted to think it is not the same specimen (They were found 1 month apart to the day).
Michael123
wrote:
29 Sep 2025
MazzV thanks so much. Will do. This species is quite variable in colour. Most are light brown with a darker brown spiral band. Some lack the spiral band and others are dark brown all over. They may have either a bright pink or white outer lip when mature. Always nice to see this NSW endemic species.
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- MazzV Recorded by
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MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Snails & Slugs (Gastropoda) Molluscs (Mollusca) Other Invertebrates Ventopelita leucocheilus
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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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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