Shells of this species have a mid-dorsal and mid-ventral keel, and fine spiral threads over their entire surface.
Striadorbis pedderi (B. J. Smith, 1973)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Heterobranchia
Infrasubcohort Panpulmonata
Superorder Pyropulmonata
Order Amphibolida
Suborder Glacidorbina
Superfamily Glacidorboidea
Family Glacidorbidae
Genus Striadorbis Ponder & Avern, 2000
Original name: Glacidorbis pedderi B. J. Smith, 1973. In Smith, B. J. (1973). A new species of snail from Lake Pedder, Tasmania, possibly belonging to the family Valvatidae.Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(4): 429 - 434.
Type locality: In small hole in plain just south of Lake Edgar (now drowned as part of Lake Pedder) Tasmania.
This species occurs in rivers, lakes, streams, springs and swamps, amongst moss, roots of water plants and similar substrates.
Central and south-western Tasmania.
Ponder, W. (2019). Glacidorbidae Ponder, 1986. Pp. 143-144 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
Ponder, W. F. & Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307-353.
Smith, B. J. (1973). A new species of snail from Lake Pedder, Tasmania, possibly belonging to the family Valvatidae. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 429-434.
Smith, B. J. & Kershaw, R. C. (1979). Field guide to the non-marine Molluscs of South-eastern Australia. Canberra, A.N.U. Press.
Smith, B. J. & Kershaw, R. C. (1981). Tasmanian Land and Freshwater Molluscs. Hobart, University of Tasmania.
