Victaphanta atramentaria

Victaphanta atramentaria
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Rhytidoidea
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 mollusks in the family Rhytididae. ^[1]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Victoria.

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
Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Victaphanta atramentaria. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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