| Theodoxus altenai | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Subfamily: | Neritininae |
| Tribe: | Theodoxini |
| Genus: | Theodoxus |
| Subgenus: | Theodoxus |
| Species: | T. altenai |
| Binomial name | |
| Theodoxus altenai Schütt, 1965[1] |
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Theodoxus altenai is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.[2]
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Distribution of this species include Antalya Province, southern Turkey.[2]
The type locality is lake near Döşemealti, Antalya Province, Turkey.[1]
The shell is exceptionally thin, light horny yellowish, translucent and shiny. Whorls are flat and very rapidly increasing, with brown quadrangular color pattern.[2] The operculum is reddish, without apophysis.[2]
The width of the shell is 9.0-10.0 mm.[1] The height of the shell is 6.0 - 7.0 mm.[1]
It lives in lakes.[2]
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[2]