This distinctive species differs from all the other species of Beddomeia in having a small, elongate conic, almost pupiform shell with a weak columella fold and has a simple penis. In shell characters, this species is most similar to B. capensis, but differs from that taxon in its narrower, smaller shell, sculptured protoconch, thicker inner lip with a weak columellar swelling.
Beddomeia phasianella Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Original name: Beddomeia phasianella Ponder & Clark, 1993. In Ponder, W.F., Clark, G.A., Miller, A. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria - a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 7: 501-750.
Type locality: Keddies Creek on Dial Road, S of Penguin, Tasmania (41°10'13"S 146°03'21"E).
On leaf litter and moss and under wood and rocks in streams.Egg capsules on rocks embedded in gravel and typical of Beddomeia - dome-shaped, with broad attachment base, covered with minute, mainly white sand grains and other fragments and containing a single egg. Development direct.
Keddies Creek and nearby small streams on Dial Road, south of Penguin, Tasmania. The three localities from which this species has been collected are all small streams.
All species of Beddomeia are geographically isolated and have restricted ranges.
This species is on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 as Vulnerable.
Ponder, W. F., Clark, G. A., Miller, A. C. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750.
