Differs from other member of genus in the shell being larger and wider.
Nanocochlea monticola Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Nanocochlea Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Nanocochlea monticola Ponder & Clark, 1993. In Ponder, W. F., Clark, G. A., Miller, A. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria - a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy: 7: 501-750.
Type locality: Large stream flowing from Lake Skinner, Snowy Mountain Range, Mt Fields National Park, southeast Tasmania.
Under boulders and in moss in streams and springs.
In streams and springs flowing into Lake Skinner, Snowy Mountain Range, Mt Field National Park, southeast Tasmania.
This species is known from several stations on the track leading to Lake Skinner, a tarn at the top of Snowy South, Snowy Range. The type locality is at the mouth of the lake, where it lives under boulders and in moss and is the only tateid present.
Ponder, W. F., Clark, G. A., Miller, A. C. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750.
Ponder, W. F., Clark, S. A., Eberhard, S. & Studdert, J. B. (2005). A radiation of hydrobiid snails in the caves and streams at Precipitous Bluff, southwest Tasmania, Australia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae s.l.). Zootaxa 1074: 1-66.
