This species is very similar to E. eulo from which it differs in its slightly more ovate shell and in the inner side of the operculum being simple. There are also differences in the female genital system and in penial features.
Eulodrobia fenshami Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Eulodrobia Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019.
Original name: Eulodrobia fenshami Ponder, Zhang, Hallan & Shea, 2019. In 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.
Type locality: A small muddy spring on the edge of the western side of the Paroo River in the town common near the township of Eulo, SW Queensland.
This species was found in the outflow of a small muddy spring.
Known only from a small muddy spring on the edge of the western side of the Paroo River in the town common near the township of Eulo, SW Queensland. Dr R. Fensham (pers. comm. to WFP in Oct. 2017) that in 2012, and confirmed in 2014, the spring appears to be extinct.
Most similar to E. eulo, differing in some minor shell, opercular and anatomical characters.
Ponder et al. (2019) noted that, on the advice of Dr R. Fensham, the spring in which this species was found may now be extinct, indicating the likely extinction of this species.
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
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.
