Pomatopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843),
New South Wales. Wood and Duke, (2001)
indicate that this New Zealand species is also introduced and
invasive in the Snake River of western North America.
Freshwater Molluscan Shells
Australian Region hydrobiidae s.s. Many species have been found endemic to the large springs of Queensland's Great Artesian Basin and elsewhere, where they are threatened by pumping of the aquifers for irrigation.
Tatea rufilabris (Adams, 1862), New South Wales
Tatea huonensis (Tenison Woods, 1876), New South Wales
Other families:
Eremopeas tuckeri (Pfeiffer, 1846), Queensland
Trochidrobia punicea Ponder, Hershler, and Jenkns, 1989, South Australia
Fonscochlea expandolabra Ponder, Eggler, and Colgan, 1996, South Australia
Fonscochlea accepta Ponder, Hershler, and Jenkns, 1989, South Australia
Fonscochlea aquatica, Ponder, Hershler, and Jenkns, 1989, South Australia
Fonscochlea zeidleri Ponder, Hershler, and Jenkns, 1989, South Australia
Austropyrgus sparsus (Iredale, 1944), New South Wales
Austropyrgus cooma (Iiredale, 1943), New South Wales
Austropyrgus elongatus (May, 1921), Tasmania
Posticobia brazieri (Smith 1882), New South Wales
Phrantela marginata (Petterd, 1889), Tasmania
Pygmanisus scottianus (Johnson, 1879), New South Wales
Glacidorbis sp. New South Wales. Glacidorbis hedleyi Iredale,
1943, New South Wales. The
white inner lip of one specimen
makes it appear detached from the
previous whorl.Glacidorbis was originally described as a genus of the pulmonate basommatophoran Planorbidae by Iredale, 1943. In 1975, Meier-Brook and Smith re-classified them as gilled prosobranch snails after describing additional species, and their close relations to a species living in southern South America. More recently, Ponder (1986) has re-assigned the genus Glacidorbis to its own family and superfamily within the Basommatophora! Meier-Brook and Smith describe them as native to lakes and streams of mountain areas.
Iredale, T. (1943). A basic list of freshwater mollusca of Australia. Austr. Zool., 10: 188-230.
Meier-Brook, C. and Smith, B. J 1975. Glacidorbis Iredale 1943, a genus of freshwater prosobranchs with a Tasmanian-Southeast Australian-South Andean distribution. Archiv fur Molluskenkunde, 106: 191-198.
Ponder, W.F. (1986) Glacidorbidae (Glacidorbiacea : Basommatophora), a new family and superfamily of operculate freshwater gastropods. Journal Linnean Society of London, 87: 53-83.
