Tiphobia horei
| Tiphobia horei | |
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| Five views of a shell of Tiphobia horei | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Paludomidae |
| Subfamily: | Hauttecoeuriinae |
| Tribe: | Tiphobiini |
| Genus: | Tiphobia E. A. Smith, 1880[2] |
| Species: | T. horei |
| Binomial name | |
| Tiphobia horei E. A. Smith, 1880[3] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Melania Horei E. A. Smith, 1880[3] | |
Tiphobia horei is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.
Tiphobia horei is the only species in the genus Tiphobia.[4] Tiphobia is the type genus of the tribe Tiphobiini.[5]
The specific name horei is in honor of Reverend Edward Coode Hore (1848-1912) from the UK.[3]
Distribution
Tiphobia horei is endemic to Lake Tanganyika.[1] It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[1] The type locality is Lake Tanganyika at Ujiji.[4]
Description
Tiphobia horei has a large shell with spines, so it is easily to determine.[4]
The width of the shell is 26 mm.[4] The height of the shell is 36 mm.[4]
Ecology
The natural habitat for this species is freshwater lakes.[1] Tiphobia horei lives in depths of 0-150 m on mud bottoms, mainly in river estuaries.
This snail was given Endangered species status in 1996, but in 2006 this was revised to Least Concern.[1] Its survival is threatened mainly by sedimentation, dredging and shell trading.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Tiphobia horei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
- ↑ Smith E. A. (1880). "On the shells of Lake Tanganyika and of the neighbourhood of Ujiji, central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 344-352. page 348, Plate 31, figure 6-6b.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)6: 425-430. page 427.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
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