The spire is flat and the shell smooth and the aperture has a flared outer lip.
Ngalidrobia yelabraensis 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
Type species: Ngalidrobia yelabraensis 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 Yelabra Well Pumphouse Bore, Yarrinyarra (Central Mount Wedge) 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.
