Differs from other members of the genus in shell being larger, subpupiform; male genital system with vas deferens opening from prostate gland anteriorly and not twisted backwards; female genital system with distal coiled oviduct with 1-2 bends (not straight or with slight arch) and capsule gland about equal to albumen gland in length.
Victodrobia victoriensis Ponder & Clark, 1993
Class Gastropoda
Infraclass Caenogastropoda
Order Littorinida
Suborder Rissoidina
Superfamily Truncatelloidea
Family Beddomeiidae
Genus Victodrobia Ponder & Clark, 1993
Original name: Victodrobia victoriensis 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: Headwaters of tributary of Franklin River on Boolarra Foster Road, Victoria (38°03'54"S 146°14'42"E).
In small streams and seeps crawling on litter and sediment. Can be locally abundant. Assumed to feed by scraping bacteria and microalgae. Egg capsules unknown.
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.
