Victaphanta atramentaria

Victaphanta atramentaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Rhytididae
Genus: Victaphanta
Species:
V. atramentaria
Binomial name
Victaphanta atramentaria
(Shuttleworth, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Nanina atramentaria Shuttleworth, 1852

Victaphanta atramentaria, common name the Gippsland black snail, is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rhytididae.[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Victoria.

References

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Victaphanta atramentaria". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22950A9402237. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22950A9402237.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ The Australian Faunal Directory: Victaphanta atramentaria
  • Shuttleworth, R.J. 1852. Diagnosen neuer Mollusken. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern 1852: 193-208
  • Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59
  • Smith, B.J. 1970. Notes on the anatomy of Victaphanta atramentaria Shuttleworth and V. compacta Cox & Hedley, and the designation of a neotype for V. atramentaria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 13-21
  • Laws, H.M. 1971. The chromosomes of some Australasian Paryphantidae. Malacologia 11: 217-224
  • Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp


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