Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.
Distribution This species lives in rainforests in North Queensland, Australia.Hugall A., Moritz C., Moussalli A. & Stanisic J. (2002) "Reconciling paleodistribution models and comparative phylogeography in the Wet Tropics rainforest land snail Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier 1875)" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(9): 6112-7.
The type locality is Bellenden Ker Mountains, Queensland.Species Gnarosophia bellendenkerensis (Brazier, 1875). Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 16 December 2009.
Description The height of the shell is 33.08 mm. The width of the shell is 40.19 mm.
Ecology These snails live in leaf litter or under logs in the mesothermal rainforest.
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