This is the smallest species of Trochidrobia, reaching only 1.2 mm in maximum diameter. It has a wider umbilicus and flatter spire than the sympatric T. inflata.
Trochidrobia minuta Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Trochidrobia Ponder, Hershler and Jenkins 1989
Original name: Trochidrobia minuta Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989. In Ponder, W. F., Hershler, R. & Jenkins, B. (1989). An endemic radiation of hydrobiid snails from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy.Malacologia 31: 1-140.
Type locality: Freeling Springs, South Australia.
Shallow water in artesian spring outflows living together with T. inflata and species of Fonscochlea.
Found in the Northern Springs and Freeling Springs complex, northern part of Lake Eyre Supergroup, northern South Australia.
Murphy, N. P., Breed, M. F., Guzik, M. T., Cooper, S. J., & Austin, A. D. (2012). Trapped in desert springs: phylogeography of Australian desert spring snails. Journal of Biogeography 39(9): 1573-1582.
Ponder, W. F., Hershler, R. & Jenkins, B. (1989). An endemic radiation of Hydrobiidae from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy. Malacologia 31: 1-140.
