The depressed, acutely angular, strongly keeled dark brown shell of G. edgbastonensis with rapidly increasing whorls is distinct from other Gyraulus species in Australia. The strong keel is present even in juveniles.
Gyraulus (Gyraulus) edgbastonensis Brown, 2001
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837
Original name: Gyraulus (Gyraulus) edgbastonensis Brown, 2001. In Brown, D. S. (2001). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: taxa of the mainland. Molluscan Research 21: 17-107.
Type locality: "Big Spring", about 31 km north-east of Aramac and about 3 km south-east of "Edgbaston" homestead, Queensland.
Lives in artesian springs at Edgbaston Station, central western Queensland.
Brown (2001) described the anatomy of this species.
Egbaston Springs, near Aramac, central Queensland.
One of several endemic snails from Edgbaston Springs in western Queensland.
Brown, D. S. (2001). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: taxa of the mainland. Molluscan Research 21: 17-107.
Fensham, R., Ponder, W. & Fairfax , R. (2010). Recovery plan for the community of native species dependent on natural discharge of groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin. Report to Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/0cefc83a-3854-4cff-9128-abc719d9f9b3/files/great-artesian-basin-ec.pdf
Hubendick, B. (1955). Phylogeny of the Planorbidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 28: 453-542.
Rossini, R. A., Fensham, R. J. & Walter, G. H. (2017). Spatiotemporal variance of environmental conditions in Australian artesian springs affects the distribution and abundance of six endemic snail species. Aquatic Ecology 51: 511-529.
