''Victaphanta atramentaria'', common name the Gippsland black snail, is a

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of carnivorous air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

, a

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family

Rhytididae Rhytididae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893. Accessed ...

.The Australian Faunal Directory: ''Victaphanta atramentaria''
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Distribution

This species is

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to Australia and occurs in

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

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 Rhytididae Gastropods of Australia Gastropods described in 1852 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rhytididae-stub