This small (up to 2.4 mm in length) species has an ovate, orange brown, umbilicate shell. The yellow-brown operculum has a low thickening at the nucleus on the inner side.
Eulodrobia eulo (Ponder & Clark, 1990)
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Eulodrobia Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019.
Original name: Jardinella eulo Ponder & Clark, 1990. In Ponder, W. F. & Clark, G. A. (1990). A radiation of hydrobiid snails in threatened artesian springs in western Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 42(3): 301-363.
Type locality: "Rocky Springs" near Mount Francis, about 52 km southwest of Eulo, SW Queensland.
Lives in a small, muddy spring amongst vegetation.
Massey Spring, or "Rocky Springs" southwest of Eulo, Queensland.
A similar form occurs in Tunga Spring, about 11 km away and has been referred to as Eulodrobia cf. eulo by Ponder et al. (2019).
This species resembles E. fenshami in shape, but differs in its less ovate shell and in lacking a pimple on the inner side of the operculum, as well as in some anatomical features.
Fensham, R., Ponder, W. & Fairfax , R. (2010). Recovery plan for the community of native species dependent on natural discharge of groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin. Report to Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane. https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/0cefc83a-3854-4cff-9128-abc719d9f9b3/files/great-artesian-basin-ec.pdf
Perez, K. E., Ponder, W. F., Colgan, D. J., Clark, S. A. & Lydeard, C. (2005). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 545-556.
Ponder, W. F. & Clark, G. A. (1990). A radiation of hydrobiid snails in threatened artesian springs in western Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 301-363.
Ponder, W. F., Zhang, W. -H., Hallan, A., & Shea, M. E. (2019). New taxa of Tateidae (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from springs associated with the Great Artesian Basin and Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland, with the description of two related taxa from eastern coastal drainages. Zootaxa 4583(1): 1-67.
