This species reaches 4.4 mm in maximum diameter and its granulose teleoconch sculpture is unique.
Benthodorbis pawpela (B. J. Smith,1979)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Infrasubcohort Panpulmonata
Superorder Pyropulmonata
Order Amphibolida
Suborder Glacidorbina
Superfamily Glacidorboidea
Family Glacidorbidae
Genus Benthodorbis Ponder & Avern, 2000
Original name: Glacidorbis pawpela B. J. Smith,1979. In Smith, B. J. 1979. A new species of Glacidorbis (?Hydrobiidae: Gastropoda) from Great Lake, Tasmania. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4:121-127.
Type locality: Elizabeth Bay, Great Lake at 30m. Tasmania.
Known only from Great Lake, Tasmania, at depths of up to 30 m. In soft mud.
Great Lake, central plateau, Tasmania.
This species is one of a small number of gastropods that are endemic to Great Lake. It has not yet been recorded from stomach contents of trout caught in Great Lake (Richards et al. 2015).
This species is on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 as Rare (small population at risk).
Fulton, W. (1983). Macrobenthic fauna of Great Lake, Arthur's Lake and Lake Sorell, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 34: 775-785.
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.
Richards, K., Spencer, C. P., Barmuta, L. & Allen, J. (2015). Insights into the diet of trout in Tasmania’s central highlands lakes—an angler’s contribution to science. The Tasmanian Naturalist 137: 60-69.
Smith, B. J. (1979). A new species of Glacidorbis (? Hydrobiidae, Gastropoda) from Great Lake, Tasmania. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 121-127.
Smith, B. J. & Kershaw, R. C. (1981). Tasmanian Land and Freshwater Molluscs. Hobart, University of Tasmania.
