Korniushin (2000) noted that the "Shell outline, position of umbo and hinge details are subject to individual variation...............is similar to the form of S. tasmanicum distributed in the upper Murray catchment but differs from it in its solid shell and strong hinge.These characters were also evident in the population from Attunga State forest living in sympatry with M. tasmanicum". S. (M,) quirindi is distinguished from M. tatiarae by its small, elongate and inflated shell as well as by its dense shell pores (Korniushin, 2000).
Sphaerium (Musculium) quirindi (Korniushin, 2000)
Common name: Pea shell, pea clam, pill clam
Class Bivalvia
Infraclass Heteroconchia
Cohort Heterodonta
Megaorder Neoheterodontei
Order Sphaeriida
Superfamily Sphaerioidea
Family Sphaeriidae
Subfamily Sphaeriinae
Type species: Tellina cornea Linnaeus, 1758. Europe.
Subgenus Musculium Link, 1807
Original name: Musculium (Sphaerinova) quirindi Korniushin, 2000. In Korniushin, A. V. ( 2000). Review of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52(1): 41 - 102.
Type locality: Quipolly Creek, on Quirindi - Breeza Road, northwest of Quirindi, New South Wales.
Two to four brood pouches per gill with three to eight embryos each. Prefers swift flowing creeks with dense vegetation. Suspension and deposit feeder.
Western slope of Great Dividing Range, North-eastern New South Wales.
Korniushin, A. V. (2000). Review of the family Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Australia, with the description of four new species. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 41-102.
Lee, T. (2019). Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). Pp. 197-201 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Lee, T. & Ó Foighil, D. (2003). Phylogenetic structure of the Sphaeriinae, a global clade of freshwater bivalve molluscs, inferred from nuclear (ITS-1) and mitochondrial (16S) ribosomal gene sequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 245-260.
