This species differs from other Australian taxa in having high, angular whorls giving it a faceted appearance.
Gyraulus (Gyraulus) mienanus Brown, 1998
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837
Original name: Gyraulus mienanus Brown, 1998. In Brown, D.S. (1998). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19: 105-154.
Type locality: Great Lake, Tasmania.
Synonym: Planorbis cathcarti Petterd,1889 (nomen nudum).
Brown (1998) described the anatomy of this species.
Originally known only from Great Lake, Central Plateau, Tasmania but has been recently found in Woods Lake, an artificial lake on the Upper Lake River which flows into Great Lake.
This is one of a few species that are endemic to Great Lake, Tasmania.
Brown, D. S. (1998). Freshwater snails of the genus Gyraulus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Australia: the taxa of Tasmania. Molluscan Research 19: 105-154.
Hubendick, B. (1955). Phylogeny of the Planorbidae. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 28: 453-542.
