Related to P. carum, this species can be distinguished by the very flat shell, ovate outline, and the long and almost straight hinge. It is similar to P. etheridgei in the elongate presiphonal suture of the mantle (Korniushin, 2000). It reaches up to 4.4 mm in length.
Euglesa centrale (Korniushin, 2000)
Common name: Pea shell, pea clam, pill clam
Class Bivalvia
Infraclass Heteroconchia
Cohort Heterodonta
Megaorder Neoheterodontei
Order Sphaeriida
Superfamily Sphaerioidea
Family Sphaeriidae
Subfamily: Subfamily: Sphaeriinae
Genus Euglesa Jenyns, 1832 (Type species: Euglesa henslowiana Jenyns, 1832 (= Pisidium personatum Malm, 1855) (also sometimes cited as Tellina pusilla Gmelin, 1791)
Original name: Pisidium (Euglesa) centrale Korniushin, 2000. In Korniushin, A. V. (2000). Review of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52(1): 41 - 102.
Type locality: Swamp in Stokes Creek Canyon, George Gill Range, Northern Territory.
Brood pouches contain up to seven embryos. Lives in desert creeks. Suspension and deposit feeder.
Known from only two creeks in the George Gill Ranges, Northern Territory.
Korniushin, A. V. (2000). Review of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102.
Lee, T. (2019). Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). Pp. 197-201 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Lee, T. & Ó Foighil, D. (2003). Phylogenetic structure of the Sphaeriinae, a global clade of freshwater bivalve molluscs, inferred from nuclear (ITS-1) and mitochondrial (16S) ribosomal gene sequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 245-260.
