Victaphanta atramentaria
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Rhytididae |
Genus: | Victaphanta |
Species: | V. atramentaria
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Binomial name | |
Victaphanta atramentaria (Shuttleworth, 1852)
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Synonyms | |
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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
[edit]This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Victoria.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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