This conical species contrasts anatomically with P. daveyensis, the same differences also applying for P. richardsoni except that the bursa in P. richardsoni extends to the posterior pallial wall.
Phrantela kutikina Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Beddomeiidae
Original name: Phrantela kutikina 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 creek immediately upstream from Kutikina Cave, Franklin River, Tasmania
(42°31'42" S, 145°46' E).
In leaf litter and silt. 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 of this species was found in a stream close to Kutikina Cave and in the stream flowing from the cave in western Tasmania. It occurred with Phrantela umbilicata in the type locality. P. kutikina occurs in various streams flowing into the Gordon and Franklin Rivers.
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.
