Victaphanta atramentaria

Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
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

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

Taxon identifiers
Victaphanta atramentaria	Wikidata: Q2886641 AFD: Victaphanta_atramentaria BOLD: 904089 CoL: 5BD3L GBIF: 2297780 iNaturalist: 114955 IRMNG: 11402902 IUCN: 22950 NCBI: 1642611 WoRMS: 956898