Nanocochlea pupoidea Ponder & Clark, 1993

Diagnostic features

Differs from other members of genus in shell being slightly smaller and narrower.

Classification

Nanocochlea pupoidea Ponder & Clark, 1993

Class Gastropoda

Infraclass Caenogastropoda

Order Littorinida

Suborder Rissoidina

Superfamily Truncatelloidea

Family Tateidae

Genus Nanocochlea Ponder & Clark, 1993

Original name: Nanocochlea pupoidea 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: Mystery Creek Cave near influx, Exit Cave State Reserve, southeast Tasmania.

Biology and ecology

In small stream in and outside cave, on surface and underside of stones in pools.

Distribution

Mystery Creek Cave, Exit Cave State Reserve and small tributary of Summers Creek, on South Lune Road, southern Tasmania.

Further reading

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.