Pseudotricula elongata Ponder, Clark, Eberhard & Studdert, 2005

Diagnostic features

Pseudotricula elongata is a tall-spired, conical shell with a narrowly  reflected outer lip, straight spire outline and posterior apertural notch.

Classification

Pseudotricula elongata Ponder, Clark, Eberhard & Studdert, 2005

Class Gastropoda

Infraclass Caenogastropoda

Order Littorinida

Suborder Rissoidina

Superfamily Truncatelloidea

Family Tateidae

Genus Pseudotricula Ponder, 1992

Original name: Pseudotricula elongata Ponder, Clark, Eberhard & Studdert 2005. In 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.

Type locality: Persephone Pot, Bauhaus,  streamway, Precipitous Bluff caves, Tasmania.

Biology and ecology

This species occurs in low-energy small cave stream with mixed substrate.

Distribution

Persephone Pot, Bauhaus, Precipitous Bluff caves, southern Tasmania. One of six species known from the caves at Precipitous Bluff.

Notes

This species is only known from a few empty shells.

Further reading

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.