This keeled species has a depressed shell and is variably spirally sculptured.
Gyraulus (Gyraulus) waterhousei (Clessin, 1884)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Subfamily: Planorbinae
Genus Gyraulus Charpentier, 1837
Original name: Planorbis waterhousei Clessin, 1884. In Clessin, S. (1884). Die Familie der Limnaeiden enthaltend die Genera Planorbis, Limnaeus, Physa und Amphipeplea. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet 1(17): 223-310, plates 40-50.
Type locality: Clarence River, NSW.
Synonyms: Glyptanisus metaurus Iredale,1943; Glyptanisus ordessus Iredale, 1943.
This species lives on aquatic vegetation in ponds, billabongs, swamps, streams and rivers. Feeds on detritus. Egg mass presumably a jelly strip containing small eggs. Development direct. Inhabits coastal areas.
Eastern New South Wales and possibly southern Queensland.
Brown (2001) considers that this species may possibly be a synonym of G. gilberti.
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