This species has less distinct spirals than L. lirata and is usually darker, typically purplish in colour.
Larina strangei A. Adams, 1864
Common name: Strange's river snail
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Informal group Architaenioglossa
Order Viviparida
Superfamily Viviparioidea
Family Viviparidae
Original name: Larina strangei A. Adams, 1864. In Adams, A. (1854). Descriptions of a new genus and of 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.
Lives submerged on the underside of rocks in creeks and rivers.
Coastal rivers in southeast Queensland.
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