The Australian freshwater limpets are in need of revision so the classification presented here is likely to be changed.
Small narrow limpet-like snails with a septum on the underside of the shell which restricts much of the shell aperture.
Stimulator consetti Iredale, 1944
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Megaorder Hygrophila
Order Lymnaeida
Superfamily Planorboidea
Family Planorbidae
Genus Stimulator Iredale, 1944 (Type species: Stimulator consetti Iredale 1944).
Original name: Stimulator consetti Iredale, 1944. In Iredale, T. 1944 The “Gundlachia” puzzle. Australian Zoologist 10: 290.
Type locality: Harding Ranges, Western Australia.
Biology unknown but presumably on wood and stones, in streams and ponds.
Previously only known from the type locality, a 'spring, 8 miles west of Munja Station, Harding Ranges, WA’. New material of this species has recently been collected from the upper tributaries of the Adelaide and Mary Rivers, Northern Territory (T. Steele pers. comm.) and by V. Kessner in some other locations.
A very narrow oblong shaped shell with a prominent septum which stretches two thirds the length of the underside of the shell. The relationships of this taxon to Australian species of Pettancylus has to be tested but are presumably close although it differs in having a slightly smaller and narrower shell.
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