The shell of this species is distinctive in possessing microcostae, being conical with convex whorls, and non-umbilicate.
Gabbia affinis (E. A. Smith, 1882)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Bithyniidae
Original name: Bithinia affinis E. A. Smith, 1882. In Smith, E.A. (1882). On the freshwater shells of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoololgy 16: 255–316.
Type locality: Burdekin River, Queensland.
This species occurs in spring-fed pools, and in pools in streams.
North-eastern Queensland, at the base of Cape York.
Negus, P., Marshall, J. C., Steward, A. L., McGregor, G. B., & O’Connor, R. (2021). The unique aquatic ecosystem of Talaroo hot springs. North Queensland Naturalist 51: 67-86.
Ponder, W. F. (2003). Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
Smith, E.A. (1882).On the freshwater shells of Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 255–316.
Smith, E. A. (1887). Notes on Australian species of Bithinia, Segmentina, and Fusus and description of a new Melania. Journal of Conchology 5: 235-238.
