This taxon differs from other species of Edgbastonia in its more regularly conical shell. It also lacks a seminal receptacles and has a peculiar protoconch microsculpture unlike that seen in any other Australian tateid. Species of Austropygrus Cotton have a similar shell morphology, but they have a pegged operculum and more than two pairs of basal cusps and differ anatomically. Some species of Fonscochlea are also generally similar but differ markedly in female anatomy.
Edgbastonia? conjuboyensis 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).
Original name: Edgbastonia? conjuboyensis 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: Conjuboy Station, W of Georgetown, in basal spring.
There is no molecular data available for this species and it is only tentatively asigned to Edbastonia sensu lato.
Lives in a spring associated with tertiary basalts.
Found in a spring emanating from basalt rocks on Conjuboy Station, west of Georgetown (ie., not from the Great Artesian Basin).
It occurs in the Einasleigh Uplands, the same general area as E. (B.) chillagoensis and E. (B.) hufferensis.
Fensham, R., Ponder, W. & Fairfax , R. (2010). Recovery plan for the community of native species dependent on natural discharge of groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin. Report to Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/0cefc83a-3854-4cff-9128-abc719d9f9b3/files/great-artesian-basin-ec.pdf
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.
