Most similar to E. (B.) chillagoensis but differs in the shell of E. (B.) routhensis being more pupiform, with that of E. (B.) chillagoensis being broader and with the inner lip of the aperture more distinctly separated from the parietal wall. Anatomically the two species are also similar, with only some minor differences.
Edgbastonia (Barcaldinia) routhensis Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Edgbastonia Ponder in Ponder, Wilke, Zhang, Golding, Fukuda, & Mason 2008 (Type species: Edgbastonia alanwillsi Ponder in Ponder et al., 2008).
Subgenus Barcaldinia Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019 (Type species Jardinella edgbastonensis Ponder & Clark, 1990)
Original name: Edgbastonia (Barcaldinia) routhensis Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019. In Ponder, W. F., Zhang, W. -H., Hallan, A., & Shea, M. E. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa 4583(1): 1-67.
Type locality: Big Spring, Routh Station, E. of Georgetown, Queensland. (Note, in the original description, the locality is erroneously given as W of Georgetown).
Lives on on mud and vegetation in and around spring seepages.
ESE of Georgetown, Routh Station, in small muddy springs, near the western boundary of the Einasleigh Uplands. These springs are not feed from the Great Artesian Basin.
Ponder, W. F., Zhang, W. -H., Hallan, A., & Shea, M. E. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa 4583(1): 1-67.
