This species is very distinctive and unique in its solid, broadly-ovate, umbilicate shell with numerous axial and spiral ridges of about equal strength.
Gabbia clathrata Ponder, 2003
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Bithyniidae
Original name: Gabbia clathrata Ponder, 2003. In Ponder, W.F. (2003) Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
Type locality: Burketown-Borroloola Road, east of turnoff to Red Bank Mine, Northern Territory.
In pools and billabongs on mud, although often associated with macrophytes and algae.
Coastal plains of the Gulf of Carpentaria into the western base of Cape York.
Ponder, W. F. (2003). Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
