Similar to G. vertiginosa, but differs in its smaller shell of a more rotund shape, and also in that it is sculptured with microcostae. The umbilicus is narrowly open in juveniles but usually closed in adults.
Gabbia rotunda Ponder, 2003
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Bithyniidae
Original name: Gabbia rotunda Ponder, 2003. In Ponder, W.F. (2003) Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
Type locality: Spring on Doongmabulla Station, approximately 7 km south of Carmichael Creek, about 50 km southwest of Belyando Crossing, Queensland.
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Described from a large, swampy recharge spring on Doongmabulla Station in the catchment of the Belyando and Burdekin Rivers. A sample from eastern Queensland was also tentatively assigned to this species by Ponder (2003).
Ponder, W. F. (2003). Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Zootaxa 230: 1-126.
