| Semisulcospira kurodai | |
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| Semisulcospira kurodai | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Semisulcospiridae |
| Genus: | Semisulcospira |
| Species: | S. kurodai |
| Binomial name | |
| Semisulcospira kurodai Kajiyama & Habe, 1961 |
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Semisulcospira kurodai is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.
Prior to 2009 was this species in the Pleuroceridae.
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The maximum width of the shell of Semisulcospira kurodai is 13.3 mm[1] and 52.0 mm in height in the laboratory.[1] The maximum weight of the animal is 7.7 g in the laboratory.[1]
The width of the shell is 10.3 mm in the first year, 11.0 in the second year, 11.5-11.8 mm in the third year and 12.0 mm in the fourth year in the laboratory.[1]
Semisulcospira kurodai lives in rivers and in ponds.[2]
The female has 17-72 embryos in its brood pouch.[2] One female can give a life to 62-79 newborn snails in the laboratory.[1]
The average size of the shell of a newborn snail varies according to the locality from 1.2 to 1.4 mm in width and from 1.9 mm to 2.1 mm in height of the shell.[2]
Semisulcospira kurodai can live up to 4 years in the laboratory.[1]