Differs from Benthodorbis pawpela in being smaller (up to 2.1 mm in maximum diameter) having a weak ventral angulation on the shell and a greatly reduced number of cusps on the radula teeth.
Benthodorbis fultoni Ponder & Avern, 2000
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Infrasubcohort Panpulmonata
Superorder Pyropulmonata
Order Amphibolida
Suborder Glacidorbina
Superfamily Glacidorboidea
Family Glacidorbidae
Genus Benthodorbis Ponder & Avern, 2000
Original name: Benthodorbis fultoni Ponder & Avern, 2000. In Ponder, W. F. & Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: (Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307–353..
Type locality: Lake Sorrell, Tasmania.
Obtained from bottom samples in Lake Sorell.
Lake Sorrell in the eastern parts of central plateau of Tasmania.
Differs from Benthodorbis pawpela in having a weak ventral angulation on the shell and a greatly reduced number of cusps on the radula teeth.
Ponder, W. (2019). Glacidorbidae Ponder, 1986. Pp. 143-144 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Ponder, W. F. & Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307-353.
