This tiny (maximum length 1.9 mm) species is tall spired, with lightly convex whorls.
Austropyrgus coolingi Ponder, Nimbs & Shea, 2023
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Austropyrgus Cotton, 1942
Original name: Austropyrgus coolingi Ponder, Nimbs & Shea, 2023. In Ponder, W. F., Nimbs, M. J. & Shea, M. E. (2023) Hyporheic Tateidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia and Judbarra (Gregory) National Park, western Northern Territory, Australia, with some taxonomic notes on the family. Molluscan Research 44, 63-83.
Type locality: Jacks Camp Well, Jacks Camp Creek, tributary of Finke Creek, Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
The there may be a few additional unnamed species similar to A. coolingi in the Flinders Ranges.
Lives in hyporheic habitats in gravel and sand in stream beds in the Flinders Ranges, where it can be common and even dominant (Cooling and Boulton 1993).
Found in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, living in gravel and sand in stream beds.
Boulton, A. J. & Williams, W. D. (1996). Aquatic biota. In: Davies, M.D., C.R. Twidale & M.J. Tyler (Eds), Natural History of the Flinders Ranges. Royal Society of South Australia (Inc), Adelaide, pp. 102–112.
Cooling, M. P. & Boulton, A. J. (1993). Aspects of the hyporheic zone below the terminus of a South Australian arid-zone stream. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44: 411–426.
Ponder, W. F., Nimbs, M. J. & Shea, M. E. (2023). Hyporheic Tateidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia and Judbarra (Gregory) National Park, western Northern Territory, Australia, with some taxonomic notes on the family. Molluscan Research 44: 63-83.
