Terrestrial gastropods of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia

WA Museum Records and Supplements | Updated 7 years ago

ABSTRACT – Five species of land snails are reported from Faure Island, two are species of Bothriembryon, a South West Botanical Province genus, two belong to Eremean Province genera, while the fifth belongs to a cosmopolitan genus. The distribution and habitats of the species are discussed. The species are survivors of the terrestrial fauna that inhabited the region during the arid phase of the last glacial period, prior to isolation by the last Late Pleistocene transgression.