Differs from other members of the genus in shell being depressed pupiform with thicker inner lip of aperture; mantle cavity with rudimentary ctenidium; anus well back from pallial edge; and stomach lacks caecum.
Victodrobia burni Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Tateidae
Genus Victodrobia Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Victodrobia burni Ponder & Clark, 1993. In Ponder, W. F., Clark, G. A., Miller, A. C. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750.
Type locality: Tarra National Park, Victoria.
In small streams and seeps crawling on litter and sediment. Can be locally abundant. Assumed to feed by scraping bacteria and microalgae. Lay solitary capsules containing a single egg. Egg capsules lenticular with a broad base, covered with sand grains. Direct development.
Eastern Victoria – Great Dividing Range, Dandenong Ranges and Strzelecki Ranges. (eg. Bulga Nat. Park, Tarra Valley Nat. Park etc.).
Sympatric with V. elongata in one locality.
Ponder, W. F., Clark, G. A., Miller, A. C. & Toluzzi, A. (1993). On a major radiation of freshwater snails in Tasmania and eastern Victoria: a preliminary overview of the Beddomeia group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 501-750.
