Differs from other members of genus in shell being pupiform; mantle cavity with narrow ctenidium; male genital system with penis having very wide base.
Victodrobia elongata Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Beddomeiidae
Genus Victodrobia Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Victodrobia elongata 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: Holotype 1.6km from Grand Ridge Rd near Tarra National Park, Victoria (38°27'00"S 146°32'00"E).
In small streams and seeps crawling on litter and sediment.
Eastern Victoria – Great Dividing Range, Dandenong Ranges and Strzelecki Ranges.
Sympatric with V. burni 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.
