This species has a small shell with prosocline outer apertural lip. This species is tentatively included in Nanocochlea, the small pupiform shell and the long S-shaped rectum being characters typical of that genus.
Nanocochlea parva Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Nanocochlea Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Nanocochlea parva 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: Small tributary of Acheron River, 100m from helicopter site below hill, western Tasmania.
In leaf litter and on wood, in small seepages and streams.
Small streams flowing into the Acheron River and lower Franklin River, southwest Tasmania.
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.
