This species has more distinct spirals than L. strangei, and is pale brown to yellowish in colour.
Larina lirata (Tate, 1887)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Informal group Architaenioglossa
Order Viviparida
Superfamily Viviparioidea
Family Viviparidae
Original name: Paludina lirata Tate, 1887. In Tate, R. (1887). Descriptions of some new species of South Australian marine and freshwater Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 9: 62-75, plts 4-5.
Type locality: Coopers Creek, Innamincka, South Australia.
Lives submerged on the underside of logs in rivers in large permanent waterholes.
Lake Eyre Basin, in some large waterholes in western Queensland and north-eastern South Australia.
Differs from Larina strangei in terms of its distinct spiral ridges around the shell.
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