Taxonomy
The Tumbling Creek cavesnail was described as a new species by Leslie Hubricht in 1971, from specimens taken by David Culver, Thomas Aley, and Hubricht in 1969 and 1970. Antrobia culveri is the type species for the genus Antrobia, also described as new to science in 1971 by Hubricht.
Hershler and Hubricht (1988) examined specimens of Antrobia culveri and confirmed the taxonomic placement of this species in the subfamily Littoridininae. They also noted the similarity of the genus Antrobia to, but distinguished it from, the genus Fontigens, which contains cave-adapted snails found in other caves and springs of the Ozark Plateau in Missouri and Arkansas.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) this genus is in the subfamily Littoridininae within the family Cochliopidae.
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