This species closely resembles G. campicola in shell characters and measurements and in radular characters. Its whorls tend to be more convex and it is much more distinctly umbilicate, especially in juveniles which are rather widely umbilicate.
Gabbia davisi Ponder, 2003
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Bithyniidae
Original name: Gabbia davisi Ponder, 2003. In Ponder, W.F. (2003) Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
Type locality: Lake Huffer Station, large spring near lake, pool at base of spring, Queensland.
See below.
Known only from a single spring on Lake Huffer Station in western Queensland where it was found in a small, shallow muddy pool near the head of a large spring and, abundantly, in a large, shallow muddy pool at the base of the spring outflow.
Ponder, W. F. (2003). Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
