diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f6f05d5..18ad9e1 100755
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
   for vectors of distributions (#101).
 - Fixed errors in notation of cumulative distribution function in the documentation of
   `HurdlePoisson()` and `HurdleNegativeBinomial()` (by @dkwhu in #94 and #96).
+- The `prodist()` method for `glm` objects can now also handle `family` specifications from
+  `MASS::negative.binomial(theta)` with fixed `theta` (reported by Christian Kleiber).
 - Further small improvements in methods and manual pages.
 
 
diff --git a/R/prodist.R b/R/prodist.R
index 068a87b..0c0440a 100755
--- a/R/prodist.R
+++ b/R/prodist.R
@@ -200,12 +200,19 @@ prodist.glm <- function(object, ..., dispersion = NULL) {
     size <- if("newdata" %in% names(list(...))) 1L else object$prior.weights
   }
   
+  ## special case: MASS::negative.binomial()
+  if(startsWith(object$family$family, "Negative Binomial")) {
+    object$family$family <- "negative.binomial"
+    phi <- environment(object$family$variance)$.Theta
+  }
+  
   ## set up distributions object (if possible)
   switch(object$family$family,
     "gaussian" = Normal(mu = mu, sigma = sqrt(phi)),
     "poisson" = Poisson(lambda = mu),
     "binomial" = Binomial(size = size, p = mu),
     "Gamma" = distributions3::Gamma(shape = 1/phi, rate = 1/(phi * mu)),
+    "negative.binomial" = NegativeBinomial(mu = mu, size = phi),
     "inverse.gaussian" = stop("inverse Gaussian distributions3 object not implemented yet"), ## FIXME: could use SuppDists for this
     "quasi" = stop("quasi family is not associated with a full probability distribution"),
     "quasibinomial" = stop("quasi-Poisson family is not associated with a full probability distribution"),