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THE FRESHWATER MOLLUSCA OF VICTORIA 
Section I of the genus Limnea, having as monotype Helix 
glutinosa Mont., which was also the monotype of Nilsson’s 
genus.” 
Genus AMERIA H. Adams, 1861. 
Ameria aliciae (Reeve). 
(PI. I, Pig. 11.) 
imZ Physa (Ameria) aliciae Reeve, P. Z. S. Lond, p. 106, fig. in text. 
1874 Id. Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xix, pi. 1, figs. 6a, b. 
Ip8 Physa kershawi Ten. Woods, Tr. Roy. Soc. Viet., xiv, p. 64. 
1881 Amplexa turrita Tate, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, p. 409. 
1882 Physa Aliciae Reeve. Tate and Brazier, Pr. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vi, 
p. 558. 
1882 Physa Kershawi Ten. Woods. Tate and Brazier, op. cit. 
1882 Physa turriculata Tate. Tate and Brazier, op. cit. 
1882 Physa (Glyptophysa) aliciae Reeve. Smith, Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Lond., Zool., xvi, p. 293. 
1882 Physa Kershawi Ten. Woods. Smith, op. cit., p. 290. 
1000 turrita Tate, Tr. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., iv, p. 76. 
1882 Aplexa kershawi Ten. Woods. Tate, op. cit. 
1885 Physa aliciae Reeve. Clessin, Conch. Cab., i, Abth. 17, p. 298 
pi. 43, figs. 2-5. 
1885 Physa kershawi Ten. Woods. Clessin, op. cit. 
cingulata Clessin, Conch. Cab., i, Abth. 17, p. 364, pi. 51, fig. 8. 
ion? P- 140, figs. 5, 5a. 
1893 Buhnus aliciae Reeve, var. cingulatus (Clessin). Billinghurst, Viet. 
Nat., X, p. 63. 
1894 Bulinus aliciae Reeve. Whan, Geelong Nat., iv. No. 10, p. 8. 
1917 Bullinus aliciae Reeve. Hedley, Rec. Aust. Mus., xii. No. i, p. 5, 
pP 14; pi. 2, figs. 17-18. 
1932 Ameria aliciae Reeve. Cotton and Godfrey, S. Aust. Nat. xiii 
No. 4, p. 161, pi. 2, fig. 11. 
1936 Ameria aliciae Reeve. Cotton, S. Aust. Nat., xvii Nos 1-4 p 
83, fig. 38. , , . , F- 
Size of Type— IS lb mm.; breadth, 9 37 mm. 
Localities— Avoca, Meredith, Gunbower, Lai Lai Falls 
(Nat. Mus. Melb.) ; Lake Wendouree (R. Tate) ; Meredith 
(J. H. Young) ; Hamilton (T. Worcester) ; Mornington 
(Rev. G. Cox) ; Chaika Creek near R. Murray (R. Mc(3aw) ; 
Castlemaine (F. L. Billinghurst). 
Vernacular Name. — The Keeled Pond-Snail. 
Ohservations.—A thin, spirally-ridged, whitish shell, 
covered with a pale dirty straw-coloured epidermis; whorls 
conspicuously angulate above. The number of ridges varies 
considerably, some examples showing mere traces. Its 
peculiar shape makes it the most readily recognized species of 
the genus in Victoria. 
