Differs from other members of genus in shell having peripheral angulation and protoconch microsculpture of pits arranged in axial bands. This species has a large, distinctive shell which has a weakly angled periphery and a weak columellar bulge. The female genital system is also distinctive in the female genital opening being a very long slit that extends well in front of the capsule gland (Fig. 96A), and the penis, although generally similar, has a minute distal papilla. In most other characters, this species somewhat resembles P. daveyensis and P. richardsoni.
Phrantela angulifera Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Original name: Phrantela angulifera Ponder & Clark, 1993. In 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.
Type locality: Small tributary of Dismal Creek, tributary of Hardwood River, Tasmania.
On wood, leaves, debris. Stream in button grass and scrub. Egg capsules unknown but probably like those of an unnamed species of Phrantela; small, with single embryo, and covered in coarse sand grains. Development direct.
The type locality of this species is a small swampy stream, a tributary of the Hardwood River, southwest Tasmania. It lives sympatrically with P. bobbrowni, P. daveyensis tristis and a species of Austropyrgus.
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.
