The tall spire and lack of inflation of the last whorl are features not seen in any other lymnaeid in Australia. This species sometimes has irregular spiral threads or wrinkles.
Stagnicola palustris (Müller, 1774)
Common name: Common pond snail.
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Lymnoidea
Family Lymnaeidae
Genus Stagnicola Jeffreys, 1830 (Type species Lymneus communis Leach, 1830 (= Stagnicola palustris) (synonyms - see https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570705).
Original name: Buccinum palustre Müller, 1774. In Müller, O. F. (1774). Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusorium, Helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. vol 2: I-XXXVI, 1-214, 10 unnumbered pages. Havniae et Lipsiae, apud Heineck et Faber, ex officina Molleriana
Synonynms: Lymnaea victoriae E. A. Smith, 1882 (for a full list see https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594993).
Type locality: Europe.
Synonyms: Limnaea tasmanica Tenison Woods, 1876 and many others (see http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181582).
Very little is known about this species in Australia. It is a host for some parasites including one that causes cercerial dermatitis in humans and is also a host for Fasciola hepatica.
Known from a few localities in Victoria, and the type of L. victoriae is from Bainsdale. Otherwise the species naturally occurs in Europe. A North American species S. elodes (Say, 1821) may be a synonym of S. palustris.
This is a new record for S. palustris in Australia.
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