Shell neritiform to naticiform in shape. Whorls very rounded. Very deeply impressed sutures, low blunt spire, large subcircular aperture. Sculpture of axial growth threads and low narrow spiral cords of varying number, sometimes with several more distinct than others. Umbilicus closed. Outer lip unthickened. Subcircular operculum. Anatomy similar to Notopala (Simone 2004).
Larina A. Adams, 1855
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Informal group Architaenioglossa
Order Viviparida
Superfamily Viviparioidea
Family Viviparidae
Subfamily: Bellamyinae
Genus Larina A. Adams, 1855
Type species: Larina strangei A. Adams, 1854
Original reference: Adams, A. (1855). Description of a new genus and several new species of gasteropodous Mollusca: from the Cumingian collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London 1854: 41-42, pl. 27.
Type locality: Moreton Bay, Queensland.
Synonyms: Centrapala Cotton, 1935 (new synonymy); Eularina Iredale, 1943
A recent revision of this genus has not been published. Unpublished studies by one of us (WFP) have been used to define the genus. Further refinement is necessary, but must await the published revision.
Lives submerged on the underside of rocks and logs in creeks and rivers. Sedentary. Presumably a filter feeder.
Central Australia and south-eastern and mid-eastern Queensland, and also occurring in Papua New Guinea.
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Cotton, B. C. (1935b). Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum 5: 339-344.
Iredale, T. (1943). A basic list of the fresh water Mollusca of Australia. Australian Zoologist 10: 188-230.
Simone, L. R. L. (2004). Comparative morphology and phylogeny of representatives of the superfamilies of architaenioglossans and the Annulariidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda). Arquivos do Museu National 62: 387-504.
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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