The shell is smooth and the last third of the last whorl detached.
Ngalidrobia porrecta Ponder, Humphreys, Shea, Dolman & Criscione, 2022.
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Ngalidrobia Ponder, Humphreys, Shea, Dolman & Criscione, 2022
Original name: Ngalidrobia porrecta Ponder, Humphreys, Shea, Dolman & Criscione, 2022. In Ponder, W. F., Humphreys, W. F., Shea, M. E., Dolman, G. & Criscione, F. (2022). Subterranean Tateidae (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Truncatelloidea) from the Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. Molluscan Research 42: 50-72.
Type locality: In groundwater sampled from Sulivan's Well, Napperby Station, Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory.
Members of this genus live in ground water and very little is known of their biology. They presumably feed on bacterial films.
Known only from the type locality.
Ponder, W. F., Humphreys, W. F., Shea, M. E., Dolman, G. & Criscione, F. (2022). Subterranean Tateidae (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Truncatelloidea) from the Ngalia Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. Molluscan Research 42: 50-72.
