Shell with short spire and open umbilicus; reaches 2.2 mm in maximum diameter. This species and Trochidrobia smithi are virtually identical in shell characters but differ anatomically. They are sympatric in only a few springs.
Trochidrobia punicea 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 punicea 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: Blanche Cup Spring, South Australia.
Shallow water in lower parts of artesian spring outflow living together with species of Fonscochlea.
The Southern and Middle Artesian Spring systems, 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.
