The shell has a peripheral angulation (not a keel), and spiral sculpture is weak or lacking. Distinguished from all other Australian Gyraulus by the blotchy pigmentation of the mantle.
Gyraulus (Gyraulus) chinensis (Dunker, 1848)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837
Original name: Planorbis chinensis Dunker, 1848. In Dunker, G. (1848). Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collectionis Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1848: 40-43.
Type locality: Hong Kong.
An invasive species in western Europe and Guinea Bissau in West Africa, Pond dweller from a locality in South Australia. This is the only species of Gyraulus found in Australia with blotchy mantle pigmentation.
Brown (2001) described the anatomy of this species.
This Asian species is known from a single locality near Mt. Gambier in South Australia. It is native in eastern and southern Asia.
This Asian species is also established in parts of Europe and the UK.
Brown, D. S. (1981). Observations on the Planorbidae from Australia and New Guinea. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 67-80.
Brown, D. S. (1998). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19: 105-154.
Brown, D. S. (2001). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: taxa of the mainland. Molluscan Research 21: 17-107.
Hubendick, B. (1955). Phylogeny of the Planorbidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 28: 453-542.
Ng, T.H., Tan, S.K., Wong, W.H., Meier, R., Chan, S-Y., Tan, H.H. and Yeo, D.C.J. 2016. Molluscs for Sale: Assessment of Freshwater Gastropods and Bivalves in the Ornamental Pet Trade. PLOS One. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130.
