It differs from the sympatric species described below in its ovate shell. Compared to the other species from the Eulo Supergroup, it is most similar to E. bundoona in size but that species differs in its more depressed spire and much wider umbilicus. Unusually, weak spiral rugae are present and similar but weaker spirals are also present in E. bundoona. E. ovata also resembles E. fenshami in shape but is larger and differs in having a short bursal duct, and in this feature, it resembles E. eulo, as it does also in having a pimple-like projection on the inner side of the operculum.
Eulodrobia ovata 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 ovata 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: Yowah Creek Springs, on Bundoona Station about 36 km NW of Eulo (Fig. 1), living in swampy conditions in muddy sediment.
Mainly found associated with wet mud in the top of mounds amongst sedges and grass. Often living with E. bundoona.
Found only in the Yowah Creek Springs, on Bundoona Station about 36 km NW of Eulo, southwest Queensland.
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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.
