Winston Ponder

Dr Winston Ponder

Senior Fellow

Key Info

  • Position Title
    Senior Fellow, Malacology
  • Section
    Malacology Collection
    Branch
    Life and Geosciences
    Division
    Australian Museum Research Institute

Email Dr Winston Ponder

Senior Fellow at the Australian Museum and an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney. Before retirement in 2005, he was a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum, where he worked in the Malacology section for 37 years and was involved in organising and building up the extensive collection. While at the museum, Dr Ponder also held several honorary positions at a number of Australian universities. In addition to pursuing research programs, he has also been active in transferring expertise to new generations of young zoologists by way of training research students, hosting overseas collaborators, running workshops, organising a number of conferences and running an intensive mollusc course at the University of Wollongong over several years.

His research extends broadly across marine and freshwater molluscs and includes observations of living animals, microanatomy, biometrics, cladistics and molecular analysis. He, along with collaborators, notably David Lindberg at the University of California, Berkeley, has been involved in the revolution in molluscan phylogenetics that has taken place over the last 20 years. His publications include 255 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, two edited books on molluscs and one on invertebrate conservation and, most recently, two major textbooks on molluscs. Recently he produced, with others, an online interactive key and information system of Australian freshwater molluscs, has been involved with the molluscan part of the online Australian faunal directory, and was editor of the journal Molluscan Research for 14 years. He organised or co-organised 12 national or international meetings and presented papers at many more. He has undertaken study trips and field work in various parts of the world over more than 40 years but field studies have mainly focused on Australian marine and freshwater habitats. During the course of his work he has described numerous species, genera and several families of molluscs.

Qualifications

BSc., MSc, PhD, DSc

Appointments

Honorary Associate, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney

Awards

Hamilton Prize, Royal Society of N.Z., 1968.

Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society, NSW, 2000

Australian Marine Sciences Association, Silver Jubilee award 2008

Finalist for Eureka Prize in Taxonomy 2008

Clarke Medal, Royal Society of NSW 2010

Lifetime Achievement Award (Australian Museum), 2017

List of refereed publications and books

  1. PONDER, W.F. & DELL, R.K. l964. Some notes on the gastropod Zelippistes benhami (Suter). Records of the Dominion Museum, 5(9): 63-72.
  2. PONDER, W.F. 1964. The freshwater Mollusca of NZ. Tane 10: 12- 35
  3. PONDER, W. F. AND T.P. WARREN 1965. An illustrated guide to the genera of the land Mollusca of New Zealand. Tane 11: 21-46.
  4. PONDER, W.F. l965. The biology of the genus Arthritica. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 6(8): 75-86.
  5. PONDER, W.F. l965. A revision of the New Zealand Recent and fossil species of Estea Iredale. l9l5. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2): l3l-l6l.
  6. PONDER, W.F. 1965. The family Eatoniellidae in New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2): 47-99.
  7. PONDER, W.F. l965. A revision of the New Zealand Recent species previously known as Notosetia Iredale, l9l5 (Rissoidae, Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 6(2): l0l-l30.
  8. PONDER, W.F. l965. A new family of the Rissoacea from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, 5(l8): l77-l84.
  9. PONDER, W.F. l966. The New Zealand species previously known as Zelaxitas Finlay l927 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Dominion Museum, 5(l7): l63-l76.
  10. PONDER, W.F. l966. On a subterranean snail and tornid from New Zealand. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, l0: 35-40.
  11. PONDER, W.F. l967. A new species of Dendropoma from New Zealand (Mollusca: Vermetidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 10(l2): l7-20.
  12. PONDER, W. F. 1967 Malacological evidence, Little Omaha Nay, December, 1963 – Appendix 2 in J. C. Schofield, Sand movement at Mangatawhiri Spit and Little Omaha Bay. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 10: 735-731.
  13. PONDER, W.F. l967. The classification of the Rissoidae and Orbitestellidae with descriptions of some new taxa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 9(l7): l93-224. l3 plates.
  14. PONDER, W.F. 1967. Observations on the living animal and mode of life of some New Zealand erycinacean bivalves. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, l0(3): 2l-32.
  15. PONDER, W.F. l968. Nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand rachiglossan gastropods with descriptions of five new species. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(4): 29-47.
  16. PONDER, W.F. l968. The morphology of some small New Zealand prosobranchs. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(6): 6l-95.
  17. PONDER, W.F. l968. Anatomical notes on two species of the Colubrariidae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, l0(24): 2l7-223.
  18. PONDER, W.F. l968. Three commensal bivalves from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(9): l25-l3l.
  19. PONDER, W.F. l968. Notes on New Zealand prosobranchs with descriptions of new species and subspecies. Records of the Dominion Museum, 6(8): ll3-l24.
  20. PONDER, W.F. l969. Notes on two neoleptonid bivalve molluscs. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 3(2): 262-272.
  21. PONDER, W.F., BEU, A.G., DELL, R.K., FLEMING, C.A., MARWICK, J., MAXWELL, P.A. & POWELL, A.W.B. l969. Request for rulings on works on New Zealand Molluscs by R.S. Allan and H.J. Finlay. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 26(l): 42-50.
  22. PONDER, W.F. l969. Minute Mollusca. Australian Natural History. June l969: 205-208.
  23. PONDER, W.F. l970. A new archibenthal species of Fasciolariidae from New Zealand. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(l): l-5.
  24. PONDER, W.F. l970. A new aplacophoran from New Zealand. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(l): 47-54.
  25. PONDER, W.F. l970. Some aspects of the morphology of four species of the neogastropod family Marginellidae with a discussion on the evolution of the toxoglossan poison gland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(l): 55-8l.
  26. PONDER, W.F. l970. The morphology of Alcithoe arabica (Gastropoda: Volutidae). Malacological Review, 3: l27-l65. 2
  27. PONDER, W.F. l97l. Some New Zealand and Subantarctic bivalves of the Cyamiacea and Leptonacea with descriptions of new taxa. Records of the Dominion Museum, 7(l3): ll9-l4l.
  28. PONDER, W.F. l97l. Guildfordia triumphans (Philippi) from Australia (Mollusca: Turbinidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(2): 133-l34.
  29. PONDER, W.F. l97l. Montacutona ceriantha n.sp., a commensal leptonid bivalve living with Cerianthus. Journal de Conchologie (Paris), l09(l): l5-25.
  30. PONDER, W.F. l97l. A review of the New Zealand neogastropod genus Paratrophon Finlay. (Mollusca: Muricidae). Journal de Conchologie (Paris), l09(3): ll0-ll8.
  31. PONDER, W.F. l97l. A review of the New Zealand Recent and fossil species of Buccinulum (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Buccinidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 1(3-4): 23l-283.
  32. PONDER, W.F. l972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(3): 2l5-248.
  33. PONDER, W.F. l972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Buccinidae (Neogastropoda Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(3): 249-265.
  34. PONDER, W.F. l972. The morphology of some mitriform gastropods with special reference to their alimentary canal and productive systems (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Malacologia, 11(2): 295-342.
  35. PONDER, W.F. & STANBURY, P. l972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. 6. Molluscs. Journal of the Linnean Society of N.S.W., 97(l): 42-55.
  36. PONDER, W.F. l972. A review of the genus Xymene Iredale in New Zealand. (Mollusca: Muricidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 2(4): 47l-499.
  37. PONDER, W.F. & WHITLEY, G.P. l972. Tom Iredale (l880-l972). The Nautilus, 86(2-4): 60-62.
  38. PONDER, W.F. & WHITLEY, G.P. l973. Obituary: Tom Iredale (l880-l972). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(4): 36l-364.
  39. PONDER, W.F. l973. Obituary: Tom Iredale. Malacological Review, 6: 73.
  40. PONDER, W.F. l973. A review of the Australian species of Penion Fischer (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(4): 40l-428.
  41. PONDER, W.F. l973. Pseudoskenella depressa gen. et. sp. nov., an ectoparasite on Galeolaria. Malacological Review, 6: ll9-l23.
  42. PONDER, W.F. l974. The origin and evolution of the Neogastropoda. Malacologia, l2(2): 295-338.
  43. PONDER, W.F. & WILSON, B.R. l974. A new species of Pterynotus (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 2(4): 295-400.
  44. PONDER, W.F. l974. Review of the Australian species assigned to Rissopsis Garrett with a description of a new species of Rissopsetia (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 3(l): 25-35.
  45. PONDER, W.F. l975. The identity of the common keyhold limpet of South- Eastern Australia (Fissurellidae). Australian Zoologist, 18(3): 2l5-2l8.
  46. PONDER, W.F. & DARRAGH, T.A. l975. The genus Zemira H. & A. Adams (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 3(2): 89-l05.
  47. PONDER, W.F. l975. Notes on the synonymy of four Australian tellinids (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 3(2): 1ll-ll9.
  48. PONDER, W.F. l975. The reinstatement of the name Astralium tentoriiformis (Jonas) for Bellastraea sirius of authors (Mollusca: Gastropoda; Turbiniidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 3(2): l2l-l26.
  49. PONDER, W.F. l975. The occurrence of Lymnaea (Psudosuccinea) columella, an intermediate host of Fasciola hepatica, in Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal, 5l(l0): 494-495.
  50. PONDER, W.F. l975. Microdryas Laseron, l950 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Designation of a type species under the Plenary Powers. Z.N. (S) 2l2l. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 32(3): 192.
  51. PONDER, W.F. l975. Identity of Penion dilatatus (Quoy and Gaimard, l833) (Mollusca: Buccinidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 9(4): 569-57l.
  52. PONDER, W.F. l976. Three species of Littorinidae from southern Australia. Malacological Review, 9(l-2): l05-ll4.
  53. PONDER, W.F. l976. The study of Australian micro-Mollusca and its applications (abstract). Malacological Review, 9(l-2): l39.
  54. PONDER, W.F. l976. Obituary: G.P. Whitley. Malacological Review, 9(l-2): l46.
  55. PONDER. W.F. & YOO, E.K. l976. A revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific Tertiary and Recent species of Pisinna (=Estea) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 30(l0): l50-247.
  56. PONDER, W.F. (with 8 others) l976. A neotype for Buccinulum linea Martyn, l784 (Mollusca: Buccinidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology, 6(2): 22l-224.
  57. PONDER, W.F. & YOO, E.K. l977. A revision of the Australian species of the Rissoellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Australian Museum, 3l(4): l33-l85.
  58. PONDER, W.F. & YOO, E.K. l978. A revision of the Eatoniellidae of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 3l(l5): 606-658.
  59. PONDER, W.F. & GOODING, R. l978. Four new eulimid gastropods associated with shallow-water diadematid echinoids in the western Pacific. Pacific Science, 32(2): l57-l8l.
  60. PONDER, W.F. 1978. The unfigured Mollusca of J. Thiele, l930 published in "Die Fauna sudwest-Australiens". Records of the Western Australian Museum, 6(4): 423-44l.
  61. PONDER, W.F. & BEU, A.G. l979. A revision of the species of Bolma Risso, l826. Records of the Australian Museum, 32(l): l-68.
  62. PONDER, W.F. & ROSEWATER, J. l979. Rectifications in the nomenclature of some Indo-Pacific Littorinidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 92(4): 773-782.
  63. PONDER, W.F. & YOO, E.K. l980. A review of the genera of the Cingulopsidae with a revision of the Australian species. Records of the Australian Museum, 33(l): l-88, figs l-24.
  64. PONDER, W.F. & CREESE, R.G. l980. A revision of the Australian species of Notoacmea, Collisella and Patelloida (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Acmaeidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 4(4): l67-208.
  65. PONDER, W.F. l98l. Posticobia norfolkensis (Sykes), an apparently extinct fresh-water snail from Norfolk Island Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W., l05(l): l7-2l.
  66. PONDER, W..F., COLMAN, P.H., YONGE, C.M. & COLMAN, M.H. l98l. The taxonomic position of Hemidonax Morch, l87l with a review of the genus (Bivalvia: Cardiacea). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 5: 4l-64.
  67. PONDER, W.F. l982. Hydrobiidae of Lord Howe Island (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 33: 89-l59.
  68. PONDER, W.F. l982. The anatomy and relationships of Hydrococcus brazieri (T. Woods) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rissoacea). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 48: 64-79.
  69. PONDER, W.F. l982. A new genus and species of Buccinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Continental Slope of eastern and southern Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 5: 20l-207.
  70. PONDER, W.F. l983. A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the world and of the Australian fossil species. Australian Museum Memoirs, l7: 1-l26.
  71. PONDER, W.F. & HALL, S.J. l983. Pelycidiidae, a new family of archaeogastropod molluscs. Nautilus, 97: 30-35.
  72. PONDER, W.F. l983. Eatoniellidae, Rissoidae, Cingulopsidae, Orbitestellidae and Rissoellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, with a review of the Antarctic and Subantarctic species. British Antarctic Survey, Scientific Report l08: l-96.
  73. PONDER, W.F. l983. A reassessment of the classification of some American species assigned to the Rissoidae (sensu lato). Nautilus, 97(3): 90-9l.
  74. PONDER, W.F. l983. A new species of Galeodea (Cassidae, Gastropoda) from Queensland, Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 6(l-2): 9l-97.
  75. PONDER, W.F. l983. A review of the genera of the Barleeidae. Records of the Australian Museum, 35: 23l-28l.
  76. PONDER, W.F. 1984. A revision of the genera of the Iravadiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Malacologia, 25: 2l-7l.
  77. PONDER, W.F. 1985. A review of the genera of the Rissoidae. Records of the Australian Museum. Supplement 4: l-22l.
  78. PONDER, W.F. 1985. Revision of Botelloides (Mollusca: Gastropoda: (Trochacea). South Australian Mines Department Special Publication, 5: 301-327.
  79. PONDER, W.F. 1985. South Australian mound springs. Relict faunas in the desert. Australian Natural History, 21(8): 352-355.
  80. PONDER, W.F. 1985. The anatomy and relationships of Elachisina Dall (Gastropoda : Rissoacea). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 51: 23-34.
  81. PONDER, W.F. 1986. The anatomy and relationships of Emblanda emblematica (Hedley) (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Emblandidae n. fam.). Records of the Australian Museum, 37: 343-351.
  82. PONDER, W.F. 1986. Glacidorbidae (Glacidorbiacea : Basommatophora), a new family and superfamily of operculate freshwater gastropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (London), 87: 53-83.
  83. PONDER, W.F. 1986. Mound Springs of the Great Artesian Basin. In: Limnology in Australia, Ed. De Deckker, P. & Williams, W. CSIRO, Melbourne. Pp. 403-420.
  84. PONDER, W.F. & CHILD, M. 1986. Obituary: J. Kerslake. 1915-1985. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 7: 179-80.
  85. PONDER, W.F. 1987. The anatomy and relationships of the opisthobranch limpet Amathina. Asian Marine Biology, 4: 1-34.
  86. PONDER, W.F. & VOKES, E. 1988. A revision of the Recent and fossil Indo-West Pacific species of Murex and Haustellum (Muricidae: Gastropoda: Mollusca). Australian Museum Records. Supplement 8: 1-160.
  87. PONDER, W.F. 1988. Prosobranch phylogeny (Ed. W.F. Ponder). Malacological Review, Supplement 4, 346 pp.
  88. PONDER, W.F. 1988. The truncatelloidean (= Rissoacean) radiation - a preliminary phylogeny. In: Prosobranch Phylogeny. Edit.Ponder, W.F. Malacological Review, Supplement 4: 129-166.
  89. PONDER, W.F. & WAREN, A. 1988. Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - a list of the family-group and higher category names. In: Prosobranch Phylogeny. Edit. Ponder, W.F, Malacological Review, Supplement 4: 288-326.
  90. PONDER, W.F. 1988. Potamopyrgus antipodarum - a molluscan coloniser of Europe and Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 54: 271-285.
  91. PONDER, W.F. 1988. Bioluminescence in Hinea braziliana (Lamarck) (Gastropoda: Planaxidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 54: 361.
  92. PONDER, W.F. & CLARK, G.A. 1988. A morphological and electrophoretic examination of "Hydrobia buccinoides", a variable brackish-water gastropod from temperate Australia (Mollusca: Hydrobiidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 36:661-689.
  93. ZEIDLER, W. & PONDER, W.F. (eds) 1989. Natural History of Dalhousie Springs. South Australian Museum, Adelaide. 138 pp.
  94. PONDER, W.F. 1989. Mollusca. In: The natural history of Dalhousie Springs (Ed. Zeidler, W. & Ponder, W.F.) South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Pp. 71-77.
  95. PONDER, W.F. 1989. Mediterranean Cingulopsidae, a relict eastern Tethyan fauna (Gastropoda: Cingulopsoidea). Bolletino Malacologico, 25: 1-4.
  96. PONDER, W.F., HERSHLER, R. & JENKINS, B. 1989. An endemic radiation of Hydrobiidae from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy. Malacologia, 31: 1-140.
  97. PONDER, W.F. & CLARK, G.A. 1990. A radiation of hydrobiid snails in threatened artesian springs in western Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum, 42:301-363.
  98. PONDER, W.F. 1990. A gravel beach shelled micro-gastropod assemblage from Ceuta, Strait of Gibraltar, with the description of a new truncatelloidean genus. Bulletin du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris,12: 291-311.
  99. PONDER, W.F. & STANISIC, J. 1990. Obituary - G. Alan Solem - an Australian perspective. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 11:1-7.
  100. WAREN, A. & PONDER, W.F. 1991. New species, anatomy and systematic position of the hydrothermal vent and hydrocarbon seep gastropod family Provannidae n. fam. (Caenogastropda) Zoologica Scripta, 20: 27-56.
  101. PONDER, W.F. 1991. The anatomy and relationships of the Orbitestellidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 56:515-532.
  102. PONDER, W.F. 1991. The anatomy and relationships of a marine valvatoidean (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 56:533-555.
  103. PONDER, W.F. 1991. Marine valvatoidean gastropods - implications for early heterobranch phylogeny. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 57:21-32.
  104. PONDER, W.F. 1991. The anatomy of Diala, with an assessment of its taxonomic position (Mollusca: Cerithioidea). Proceedings of the Marine Biological Workshop, Albany 2: 499-519.
  105. PONDER, W.F., COLGAN, D.J. & CLARK, G.A. 1991. The morphology, taxonomy and genetic structure of Tatea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae), estuarine snails from temperate Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 39: 447-497.
  106. PONDER, W.F. 1991. The eastern seaboard species of Jardinella (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae), Queensland rainforest- inhabiting freshwater snails derived from the west. Records of the Australian Museum, 43: 275-289.
  107. GOFAS, S. & PONDER, W.F. 1991. The habitat and relationships of Plagyostila asturiana (Gastropoda, Rissoidae). Bull Bulletin du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, 4th Ser. 13: 39-47.
  108. PONDER, W.F. 1991. Australian Hydrobiidae - an overview based on current research. Proceedings of the 10th International Malacological Congress, Tübingen, 1989:525-528.
  109. PONDER, W.F. 1992. A new genus and species of aquatic cave- living snail from Tasmania (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 126:23-28.
  110. PONDER, W. F. 1992. Bias and biodiversity. Australian Zoologist, 28:47-51.
  111. WILSON, G.D.F. & PONDER, W.F. 1992. Extraordinary new subterranean isopods (Pericarida: Crustacea) from the Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 44:279-298.
  112. PONDER, W.F. & TAYLOR, J. D. 1992. Predatory shell drilling by two species of Austroginella (Gastropoda: Marginellidae). Journal of Zoology, 228:317-328.
  113. TILLIER, S. & PONDER, W.F. 1992. New species of Smeagol from Australia and New Zealand, with a discussion of the affinities of the genus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 58:135-155.
  114. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R. 1992. A revision of the genus Diala (Gastropoda; Cerithioidea; Dialidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 6:1019-1075.
  115. WORSFOLD, T.M., AVERN, G. & PONDER, W.F. 1993. Shallow water rissoiform gastropods from Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean with records of species from Gough Island. Zoologica Scripta, 22:153-166.
  116. PONDER, W.F. 1993. A new cerithiid from south Western Australia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cerithiidae). Proc. Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop, Rottnest Island, 1: 267-277.
  117. PONDER, W.F., CLARK, G.A., MILLER, A. & TOLUZZI, A. 1993. On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria - a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 7: 501-750.
  118. PONDER, W.F., CHILCOTT, S.J., FULTON, W., KIRKPATRICK, J. & RICHARDSON, A.M.M. 1994. Streams and rivers in the World Heritage area of South Western Tasmania. Pp. 114-122. In Smith, S. J. & Banks, M. R. (eds), `Tasmanian wilderness - World Heritage values'. (Royal Society of Tasmania: Hobart).
  119. COLGAN, D.J. & PONDER, W.F. 1994. The evolutionary consequences of restrictions in gene flow: examples from hydrobiid snails. Nautilus Supplement, 2: 25-43.
  120. PONDER, W.F. & WORSFOLD, T.M. 1994. A review of the rissoiform gastropods of southwestern South America (Mollusca, Gastropoda). LACM Contributions in Science, 445: 1-63.
  121. PONDER, W.F., D.J. COLGAN, G. A. CLARK, A. C. MILLER & T. TERZIS, 1994. Microgeographic genetic and morphological differentiation of freshwater snails - the Hydrobiidae of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, south eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 42: 557-678.
  122. PONDER, W.F. 1994. Australian freshwater Mollusca: Conservation priorities and indicator species. Records Queensland Museum, 36: 191-196.
  123. PONDER, W.F. 1994. The anatomy and relationships of Finella and Scaliola (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea: Scaliolidae). Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, 3 (ed. B. Morton) Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp. 215-241.
  124. PONDER, W.F. 1994. The anatomy and relationships of three species of vitrinelliform gastropods from Hong Kong (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, 3 (ed. B. Morton). Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp. 243-281.
  125. PONDER, W.F. 1995. . Mound spring snails of the Australian Great Artesian Basin. In Kay, E.A. (ed.) The conservation biology of molluscs. IUCN, Gland Switzerland. Pp. 13-18.
  126. LINDBERG, D. R. & PONDER, W.F. 1996. An evolutionary tree for the Mollusca: Branches or roots? In Taylor, J.D. (ed.) Origin and Evolutionary Radiation of the Mollusca, Oxford University Press, p. 67-75.
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  144. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R.G. 1998. Superfamily Cyamioidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 318-322.
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  147. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Brief introductions to higher groups of gastropods: Subclass Eogastropoda. p. 639; Subclass Orthogastropoda. p. 652; Superorder Vetigastropoda. p. 664; Superorder Neritopsina. p. 693-694; Apogastropoda. p. 703; Caenogastropoda. p. 703; Sorbeoconcha. p. 707; Infraorder Littorinimorpha. p. 737; Infraorder Ptenoglossa. p. 808. Infraorder Neogastropoda. p. 819; Superorder Heterobranchia. p. 854. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
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  150. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Superfamily Vanikoroidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 769-772.
  151. HOAGLAND, K.E. & PONDER, W..F. 1998. Superfamily Calyptraeidae. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 772-774.
  152. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Superfamily Capuloidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 774-775.
  153. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R.G. 1998. Superfamily Xenophoroidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 775-778.
  154. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Superfamily Muricoidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 819-820.
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  156. DARRAGH, T.A. & PONDER, W..F. 1998. Family Volutidae. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 833-835.
  157. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Family Marginellidae. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 838-841.
  158. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Family Mitridae. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 841-842.
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  160. PONDER, W.F. 1998. Family Costellariidae. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 843-845.
  161. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R.G. 1998. Superfamily Valvatoidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 854-858.
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  163. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R.G. 1998. Superfamily Omalogyrioidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 864-865.
  164. PONDER, W.F. & DE KEYZER, R.G. 1998. Superfamily Pyramidelloidea. In Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. and Wells, A. (eds) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Vol. 5. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, p. 865-869.
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  166. PONDER, W. F. 1999. Calopia (Calopiidae), a new genus and family of estuarine gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) from Australia. Molluscan Research, 20: 17-60.
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  169. PONDER, W.F. & LUNNEY, D. (eds) 1999. The Other 99%. The conservation and biodiversity of invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman. 454 pp.
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  175. PONDER, W. F. & G. J. AVERN. 2000. The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 52: 307-353.
  176. WALKER, J. C. & PONDER, W. F. 2001. A new genus and species of Planorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pulmonata) from northern Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 67: 153-160.
  177. PONDER, W.F., CARTER, G.A., FLEMONS, P. & CHAPMAN, R.R. 2001. The evaluation of museum collection data for use in biodiversity assessment. Conservation Biology, 15: 648-657.
  178. NEUWEGER, D., WHITE, P. & PONDER, W. F. 2001. Land snails from Norfolk Island sites. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 27: 115-122.
  179. LINDBERG, D.R. & PONDER, W.F. 2001. The influence of classification on the evolutionary interpretation of structure – a re-evaluation of the evolution of the pallial cavity in gastropod molluscs. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution, 1: 273-299.
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  183. PONDER, W. F. & WALKER, K. F., 2003. From mound springs to mighty rivers: the conservation status of freshwater molluscs in Australia. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 6: 19-28.
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  187. PONDER, W.F., COLGAN, D. J., GLEESON, D. M. & SHERLEY, G. H. 2003. The relationships of Placostylus from Lord Howe Island; an investigation using the mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase I gene. Molluscan Research, 23: 159-176.
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  191. PONDER, W. F. 2004. Endemic aquatic macroinvertebrates of artesian springs of the Great Artesian Basin – progress and future directions. Records of the South Australian Museum Monograph Series, 7: 101-110.
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  196. PONDER, W.F. & BAYER, M., 2004. A new species of Lortiella (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoidea: Hyriidae) from northern Australia. Molluscan Research, 24: 89-102.
  197. STANISIC, J. & PONDER, W. F. 2004. Forest snails in eastern Australia - one aspect of the other 99%. In Forest Faunas Ed. by D. Lunney. Pp 127-149.
  198. PONDER, W.F. 2004. Conservation of molluscs and other beasts without backbones; issues, strategies and the role of museum collections. Molluscan Biodiversity and Conservation, I. J.Killeen & M. B. Seddon (eds) Journal of Conchology Special Publication number 3. Pp. 7-21.
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  201. PEREZ, K. E., PONDER, W. F., COLGAN, D. J., CLARK, S.A., LYDEARD, C. 2005. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 545-556.
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  203. PONDER & HAASE, M. 2005. A new genus of hydrobiid gastropods with Australian affinities from Lake Poso, Sulawesi (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Molluscan Research 25: 27-36.
  204. FUKUDA, H. & PONDER, W. F. 2005. A revision of the Australian taxa previously attributed to Assiminea buccinoides (Quoy and Gaimard) and Assiminea tasmanica Tenison-Woods (Caenogastropoda: Assimineidae). Invertebrate Systematics 19: 325-360.
  205. PONDER, W. F., CLARK, S. A., EBERHARD, S. & STUDDERT, J. B. 2005. A radiation of hydrobiid snails in the caves and streams at Precipitous Bluff, southwest Tasmania, Australia (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea: Hydrobiidae s.l.). Zootaxa 1074: 1-66.
  206. BOUCHET, P. AND ROCROI, J.-P. (with classification by FRÝDA, J., HAUSDORF, B., PONDER, W., VALDÉS, A. & WARÉN, A.) 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1-397.
  207. PONDER, W. F., WALKER, J. & PUSLEDNIK, L. 2006. Australian freshwater snails as intermediate hosts for trematodes. National Parasitology Symposium proceedings. Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, NSW. Pp. 57-94.
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  209. PONDER, W.F. 2006. Aquatic animal diversity in Queensland discharge artesian springs – significance, gaps and relevance for other GAB springs. In Proceedings of the 6th Great Artesian springs researchers forum. Adelaide, 2006. compiled by T. B. Gotch and J. Defavari. Pp. 13-27.
  210. HAASE, M., PONDER, W. F. AND BOUCHET, P. 2006. The genus Fluviopupa Pilsbry, 1911 from Fiji (Caenogastropoda, Rissooidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 72: 119-136.
  211. COLGAN, D. J., PONDER, W.F. & DA COSTA, P. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA variation in an endemic aquatic snail genus, Caldicochlea (Hydrobiidae; Caenogastropoda) in Dalhousie Springs, an Australian arid-zone spring complex. Molluscan Research 26: 8-18.
  212. FUKUDA, H., PONDER, W.F. & MARSHALL, B. A. 2006. Anatomy and relationships of Suterilla Thiele (Caenogastropoda: Assimineidae) with descriptions of four new species. Molluscan Research, 26: 141-168.
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  217. GOLDING, R. E., PONDER, W.F. & BYRNE, M. 2007. Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata). Zootaxa 1476: 1–50.
  218. PONDER, W, F., PARKHAEV, P. Yu. & BEECHEY. D. L. 2007. A remarkable similarity in scaly shell structure in Early Cambrian univalved limpets (Monoplacophora; Maikhanellidae) and a Recent fissurellid limpet (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with a review of Maikhanellidae. Molluscan Research 27: 129-139.
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  225. PONDER, W. F., WILKE, T., ZHANG, W.-H., GOLDING, R. E. FUKUDA, H., & MASON, R. A. B. 2008. Edgbastonia alanwillsi n.gen & n.sp. (Tateinae: Hydrobiidae s.l.: Rissooidea: Caenogastropoda); a snail from an artesian spring group in western Queensland, Australia, convergent with some Asian Amnicolidae. Molluscan Research, 28: 89-106.
  226. GOLDING, R. E., PONDER, W. F. & BYRNE, M. 2009. Three-dimensional reconstruction of the odontophoral cartilages of Caenogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda) using micro-CT: Morphology and phylogenetic significance. Journal of Morphology 270: 558-587.
  227. ROSS, P., MINCHINTON, T. & PONDER, W. 2009. The ecology of molluscs in Australian saltmarshes. In Australian Saltmarsh Ecology. Saintilan, N. (ed.). CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. Pp. 75-114.
  228. PUSLEDNIK, L., PONDER, W. F., DOWTON, M. & DAVIS, A. R. 2009. Examining the phylogeny of the Australasian Lymnaeidae (Heterobranchia: Pulmonata: Gastropoda) using mitochondrial, nuclear and morphological markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 643-659.
  229. GOLDING, R. E., PONDER, W. F & BYRNE, M. 2009. The evolutionary and biomechanical implications of snout and proboscis morphology in Caenogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Natural History 43: 2723-2763.
  230. GOLDING, R. E. & PONDER, W. F. 2010. Homology and morphology of the neogastropod valve of Leiblein (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Zoomorphology, 129: 81-91.
  231. HYMAN, I. T. & PONDER, W. F. 2010. A phylogenetic analysis and generic revision of Australian Helicarionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora), with descriptions of two new genera. Zootaxa, 2462: 1-148.
  232. PONDER, W. F. 2010. A replacement name for Kapala Ponder, 1982 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Molluscan Research, 30: 56.
  233. NEVILL, J. C., HANCOCK, P. J., MURRAY, B. R., PONDER, W. F., HUMPHREYS, W. F., PHILLIPS, M. L. & GROOM, P. K. 2010. Groundwater-dependent ecosystems and the dangers of groundwater overdraft: a review and an Australian perspective. Pacific Conservation Biology, 16: 187-208.
  234. STRONG, E, E., COLGAN, D. J., HEALY, J. M., LYDEARD, C., PONDER, W. F., & GLAUBRECHT, M. 2011. Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162: 43-89.
  235. FENSHAM, R. J., SILCOCK, J. L., KEREZSY, A., & PONDER, W. F. 2011. Four desert waters: Setting arid zone wetland conservation priorities through understanding patterns of endemism. Biological Conservation 144(10): 2459-2467.
  236. CRISCIONE, F. & PONDER, W. F. 2011. A review of the Recent species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). Molluscan Research 31 (2): 65-84.
  237. WILKE, T., HAASE, M., HERSHLER, R., LIU, H.-P., MISOF, B. & PONDER, W. 2013. Pushing short DNA fragments to the limit: Phylogenetic relationships of 'hydrobioid' gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 66: 715-736.
  238. CRISCIONE, F. & PONDER, W. F. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of rissooidean and cingulopsoidean families (Gastropoda : Caenogastropoda ). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 66: 1075-1082.
  239. PONDER, W. F. & SHEA, M. E. 2014. A new species of the Fluviopupa group (Caenogastropoda: Tateidae) from north-east Queensland, Australia. Molluscan Research 33: 71-79.
  240. MIRANDA, N. A., VAN ROOYEN, R., MACDONALD, A., PONDER, W., & PERISSINOTTO, R. 2014. Genetics and shell morphometrics of assimineids (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) in the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa. ZooKeys, 419, 73 -86.
  241. PONDER, W. F., FUKUDA, H., & HALLAN, A. 2014. A review of the family Clenchiellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea). Zootaxa, 3872, 101-153.
  242. FUKUDA, H., PONDER, W. F., & HALLAN, A. 2015. Anatomy, relationships and distribution of Taiwanassiminea affinis (Böttger)(Caenogastropoda: Assimineidae), with a reassessment of Cyclotropis Tapparone-Canefri. Molluscan research, 35, 24-36.
  243. CRISCIONE, F., PONDER, W. F., KÖHLER, F., TAKANO, T., & KANO, Y. 2016. A molecular phylogeny of Rissoidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) allows testing the diagnostic utility of morphological traits. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 79: 23-40.
  244. MARSHALL, B. A., BEU, A. G., PONDER, W. F., SPENCER, H. G., WALTON, K., & WILLAN, R. C. (2016). Case 3702 Verconella dilatata var. cuvieriana Powell, 1927 (currently Penion cuvierianus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Buccinoidea): proposed conservation of the specific name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 73, 3-6.
  245. HYMAN, I. T., & PONDER, W. F. 2016. Helicarionidae (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Stylommatophora) of Lord Howe Island. Molluscan Research, 36, 84-107.
  246. ZIELSKE, S., PONDER, W. F., & HAASE, M. 2017. The enigmatic pattern of long‐distance dispersal of minute freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae) across the South Pacific. Journal of Biogeography, 44, 195-206.
  247. MARSHALL, B. A., BEU, A. G., PONDER, W. F., SPENCER, H. G., WALTON, K., & WILLAN, R. C. 2017. Case 3706—Trochus (Osilinus?) capillaceus Philippi, 1849 (currently Cantharidus capillaceus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea): proposed conservation of the specific name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 74, 8-13.
  248. PONDER, W. F., LOCH, I., TALBOT, F. & KABAT, A. 2018. Donald F. McMichael CBE—his malacological contributions. Molluscan Research, 38, 1-4.
  249. DAVIS, A. R. & PONDER, W. 2019. Biogeographic conundrum: Why so few stream nerite species (Gastropoda: Neritidae) in Australia? Freshwater Biology, 64, 2084-2088.
  250. PONDER, W. 2019. Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. Pp. 101-103 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
  251. PONDER, W. (2019). Tateidae Thiele, 1925. Pp. 134-138 in C. Lydeard & Cummings, K. S. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: a Distribution Atlas. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press.
  252. 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.
  253. PONDER, W. F., ZHANG, W.-H., HALLAN, A. & SHEA, M. E. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa 4583: 1-67.
  254. PONDER, W. F., LINDBERG, D. R. & PONDER, J. M., 2019 Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca. Volume 1. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
  255. PONDER, W. F., LINDBERG, D. R. & PONDER, J. M., 2020. Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca. Volume 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

CD Rom Information System and Interactive Key

PONDER, W. F., CLARK, S.A., & DALLWITZ, M.J. 2000. Freshwater and Estuarine Molluscs. An interactive, illustrated key for New South Wales. CSIRO Publishing.

Online identification key

Australian freshwater molluscs: the snails and bivalves of Australian inland waters

PONDER, WF, HALLAN, A., SHEA, M., AND CLARK, SA (online in 2016)

http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/freshwater_molluscs/

Updated June 2020.

Online checklists

SMITH, B. J., REID, S. AND PONDER, W. F., 2002: Mollusca: Pulmonata. http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pstrTaxa=1;pstrChecklistMode=1

SMITH, B. J., REID, S. AND PONDER, W. F., 2004: Non-marine Mollusca – Bivalvia, Neritopsina and Caenogastropoda. http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=PULMONATA;pstrTaxa=1;pstrChecklistMode=1