Additions and corrections to Land Snails of British Columbia
This page serves two purposes:
- To correct obvious errors that crept into the manuscript undetected; and
- To offer new information (new distributional data, additional species and important references) that have arisen since the book went to press.
I welcome suggestions and additions.
History of Terrestrial Malacology in B.C. (p. 22). For more information on the life of John Keast Lord, see:
Baker, D.B. 2002. John Keast Lord: Materials for a Life. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. viii + 65 pages.
Family Succineidae (p. 39). First sentence should read: "Shells of these mostly wetland snails ..."
Add to the family Succineidae (p. 39) and to the Checklist (p. 24) the following species:
Novisuccinea strigata (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonym. Succinea rotundata Sowerby, 1862; S. chrysis Westerlund, 1883; S. annexa Westerlund, 1883; S. lineata W.G. Binney, 1885.
Recently collected (2004) from the Liard Plain in northern B.C.
Selected references: Dall, 1905; Likharev and Rammel'meier 1962; Pilsbry 1948.
Lauria cylindracea (p. 43). Both left and right figures are adult snails. The right snail is just a shorter form.
Pupilla hebes (p.52). Distribution. Recently found (2004) from several additional sites near Good Hope Lake and north of Atlin in northwestern B.C.
Vitrea contracta (p. 93). Distribution. Recently found (2004) at Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands.
Daudebardiidae (p. 101). Correct spelling of "Daudebariidae" to "Dardebardiidae" in heading.
Vitrina pellucida (p. 109). Genitalia: remove Roth & Lindberg 1981 reference; they did not describe or illustrate this species' genitalia. Clarify the final paragraph of Description: " It differs from the related V. angelicae ... by having much of the penis and vas deferens enclosed together in a sheath of protective tissue ...".
Hemphillia camelus (p. 137). Correct distribution to read "Southeast BC, Alberta and Idaho." (Not Montana.) Also, remove "Kamloops". Under Selected References, remove Frest & Johannes (2001) reference.
Hemphillia glandulosa (p. 139). Change "Bland & W.G. Binney 1873" to "... 1872".
Arion hortensis (p. 148). This species has now been confirmed for British Columbia (H. Reise, pers. comm.).
Key to species of Cryptomastix (p. 151). Couple 1b should read "Shell width more than 9 mm ...".
Photo credits (p. 184). Two names of contributing photographers were unfortunately misspelled: I once again thank Drs.Vollrath Wiese and John Hutchinson for the use of their photos, and apologize for these errors.