Notopala sublineata hanleyi Frauenfeld, 1864
River snail, Blind river snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1980's
Rediscovered in 1993
Distribution
The Murray and Murrumbidgee drainages, South Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Frauenfeld, G. R. von. (1864). Verzeichniss der Namen der fossilen und lebenden Arten der Gattung Paludina Lam. nebst. jenen der nachststehenden und einrechung derselben in der verschieden neneren Gattungen. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Vereins in Wien 14: 561-672 (page 612).
Other references:
Clarke, Geoffrey M. and Spier-Ashcroft, Fiona. (2003). A Review of the Conservation Status of Selected Australian Non-Marine Invertebrates. Canberra: Environment Australia.
Cotton, B. C. (1935a). Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum. 5: 339-344.
Cotton, B. C. (1935b). The Australian viviparous river snails. Victorian Naturalist. 52: 96-99.
Holmes, Branden. (2021). What's Lost and What Remains: The Sixth Extinction in 100 Accounts (eBook). Self published.
Mitchell, Polly K. (2005). Notopala sublineata: An Endangered Snail within the Murray-Darling Basin, NSW. Thesis. viii + 141 pp.
Ponder, W. F. (1998). News from Australia. Tentacle No. 8. July, 12-13. Newsletter of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Mollusc Specialist Group.
Sheldon, F. and Walker, K. F. (1993a). Pipelines as a refuge for freshwater snails. Regulated Rivers 8: 295-299. [Abstract]
Sheldon, F. and Walker, K. F. (1993b). Shell variation in Australian Notopala (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 14: 59-71. [Abstract]
Sheldon, F. and Walker, K. (1997). Changes in biofilms induced by flow regulation could explain extinctions of aquatic snails in the lower River Murray, Australia. Hydrobiologia 347: 97-108. [Abstract]
Walker, Keith Forbes. (1996). The river snail Notopala hanleyi: An endangered pest. Xanthopus 14(1): 5-7.
Wishart, M. (1994). Studies on the biology of the endangered river snail Notopala hanleyi (Frauenfeld) (Prosobranchia : Viviparidae), and recommendations for conservation management. Unpublished Bachelor of Science Honours Thesis, University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Notopala_sublineata_hanleyi
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/river-snail.html
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/184241/Recovery-plan-for-the-endangered-river-snail-Notopala-sublineata---June-2007.pdf
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/208263/FR14-river-snail.pdf
http://www.sydneyshellclub.net/shellers/0701-0801/0701-0801.htm