Victaphanta atramentaria, common name the Gippsland black snail, is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Rhytididae.The Australian Faunal Directory: Victaphanta atramentaria
Distribution This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Victoria.
References
Shuttleworth, R.J. 1852. Diagnosen neuer Mollusken. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern 1852: 193-208 Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59 Smith, B.J. 1970. Notes on the anatomy of Victaphanta atramentaria Shuttleworth and V. compacta Cox & Hedley, and the designation of a neotype for V. atramentaria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 13-21 Laws, H.M. 1971. The chromosomes of some Australasian Paryphantidae. Malacologia 11: 217-224 Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp