[3] Colour is usually yellow, olive green, brown, cream or white and sometimes may have darker spiral bands.

[4] Head-foot with long tentacles with eyes on short processes at their outer bases; often pigmented with multiple different colours.

It occurs throughout Queensland and New South Wales, northern Western Australia and Northern Territory and in the Murray-Darling Basin in Victoria and South Australia.

Members of Notopala are thought to be grazers of periphyton and occur in slow moving or still waters.

"[4] The type species of the genus Notopala is Paludina hanleyi Frauenfeld, 1862, by original designation[1]