Shell minute (maximum diameter less than 1.1 mm), smooth or with weak spiral threads.
Glacidorbis troglodytes Ponder & Avern, 2000
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Infrasubcohort Panpulmonata
Superorder Pyropulmonata
Order Amphibolida
Suborder Glacidorbina
Superfamily Glacidorboidea
Family Glacidorbidae
Genus Glacidorbis Iredale, 1943
Original name: Glacidorbis troglodytes Ponder & Avern, 2000. In Ponder, W. F. & Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: (Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307–353.
Type locality: One Tree Sink Hole (= Wurwurlooloo 5L7), near Mt. Gambier, South Australia.
This species is known only from One Tree Sink Hole near Mt. Gambier, SA. In cave - 47 m deep - in fine silt/mud.
South-eastern South Australia.
This is the only Glacidorbis species known from South Australia.
Ponder, W. F. (1986). Glacidorbidae (Glacidorbacea: Basommatophora), a new family and superfamily of operculate freshwater gastropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 87: 53-83.
Ponder, W. (2019). Glacidorbidae Ponder, 1986. Pp. 143-144 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Ponder, W. F. & Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307-353.
