Differs from other members of the genus in shell being broadly ovate conic; pallial cavity with ctenidium overlapping anterior end of pericardium; male genital system with vas deferens straight and opens at anterior quarter of prostate gland; female genital system with bursa copulatrix not extending to posterior pallial wall and opening small and slightly anterior to capsule gland.
Victodrobia millerae Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Beddomeiidae
Genus Victodrobia Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Victodrobia millerae 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: Spring, at head of tributary of Turtons Creek on Boolarra Foster Road, Victoria (38°33'48"S 146°14'30"E).
Found in small stream fed trickles and seepages. 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.
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.
