
Kershaw’s Panda Snail - Pygmipanda kershawi
Kershaw's Panda-snail Pygmipanda kershawi (Brazier, 1872) (Caryodidae) is a large native land snail with a shell size of about 35-60 mm (Stanisic et al. 2010). Like other caryodid land snails, P. kershawi is nocturnally active and is herbivorous, grazing on fungi and decaying plant material (Stanisic et al. 2010). The species is found under grass tussocks, leaf litter and woody debris in woodland, dry open forest and tall forest from east Gippsland and north-eastern Victoria to the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales (NSW) (Smith and Kershaw 1979; Smith 1992; Stanisic et al. 2010). Although relatively common in Victoria, it is uncommon in NSW (Stanisic et al. 2010), with only five known localities (Atlas of Living Australia, Australian Museum and Queensland Museum collection data). This paper documents two recent opportunistic records of the species in NSW.
The PDF below was used to identify this snail shell
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4e97/c02d7ae590b8d0d4fd2287e1660abb271b01.pdf