Differs from other species in shell having a protoconch of about two whorls; radula narrower; male genital system with straight pallial vas deferens and penial duct; female genital system with proximal coiled oviduct with two bends and extends slightly posterior to bursa copulatrix.
Phrantela conica Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Beddomeiidae
Original name: Phrantela conica 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: Tributary of Little Henty River, at Zeehan Road, Tasmania (41°52'35" S, 145'22'34" E).
Occurs sympatrically with Beddomeia zeehanensis, a species of Austropyrgus, and another (unnamed) species of Phrantela, living under stones and on roots and aquatic vegetation, especially in sheltered parts of the large stream. 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.
Tributary of Little Henty River, at Zeehan Road, western Tasmania.
This species is on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 as Rare (small population at risk).
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.
