The shells of Sermyla carbonata are taller and more slender, with a higher spire, and have less distinct axial and spiral ribs in comparison with S. cf. riqueti.
Sermyla carbonata (Reeve, 1859)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Megaorder Cerithiimorpha
Order Cerithiida
Superfamily Cerithioidea
Family Thiaridae
Genus Sermyla H & A. Adams, 1854
Original name: Melania carbonata Reeve, 1859. In Reeve, L. A. (1859-1861). Monograph of the genus Melania. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 12, pls 1-59 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
Type locality: Unknown.
Synonyms: Melania venustula Brot, 1877; Sermylasma prognata Iredale, 1943.
On and in sediment, rocks and water weeds in estuarine and freshwater rivers, streams, ponds and billabongs. A detritus feeder. Broods larvae in a brood pouch in the head which contains about a dozen juveniles.
Gulf of Carpentaria drainages of the Northern Territory and Howard Springs near Darwin; northern Queensland, and a few locations in central Australia and in NW Australia.
This species was known as Sermula venustula (Brot) until recently.
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