The peripheral keel or angulation is weaker than in G. edgbastonensis, and like that species it is central. This species varies widely in degree of depression and angulation, and development of spiral sculpture.
Gyraulus (Gyraulus) gilberti (Dunker, 1848)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837
Original name: Planorbis gilberti Dunker, 1848. In Dunker, A.G. (1848). Diagnoses specierum novarum generis Planorbis collection is Cumingianae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London 1848: 40-43.
Type locality: Brisbane district, Queensland.
Synonyms: Planorbis macquariensis Smith, 1883; Planorbis fragilis Smith, 1883 (non Dunker, 1850); Planorbis brazieri Clessin, 1885 (replacement name for P. fragilis Smith); Planorbis planissimus Clessin, 1885; Planorbis daemeli Clessin, 1885; Glyptanisus idenus Iredale, 1943; Glyptanisus stabilis Iredale, 1943; Glyptanisus speranus Iredale, 1943.
This species lives in water weeds and other vegetation in ponds, billabongs, swamps and sluggish streams and rivers in tropical and subtropical eastern Australia. Feeds on detritus. Egg mass presumably a jelly strip containing small eggs. Development direct.
Brown (2001) described the anatomy of this species.
This species is an intermediate host for the stomach fluke Orthocoelium streptocoelium (Boray, 1982; Beesley et al., 1998).
This species occurs throughout eastern Australia, from Cape York to northern New South Wales.
G. isingi and/or G.waterhousei may possibly be conspecific with this species (Brown, 2001).
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Brown, D. S. (2001). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: taxa of the mainland. Molluscan Research 21: 17-107.
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Smith, B. J. (1992). Non-marine Mollusca. Pp. i-xii, 1-408 in W. W. K. Houston. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 8. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service.
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