Tylomelania neritiformis
| Tylomelania neritiformis | |
|---|---|
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| Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis | |
| Conservation status | |
| Not listed in IUCN Red List[1] | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Tylomelania |
| Species: | T. neritiformis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tylomelania neritiformis Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897[2] | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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Melania neritiformis | |
Tylomelania neritiformis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Tylomelania neritiformis is the type species of the genus Tylomelania.[3] This type species was subsequently designated by Johannes Thiele in 1929.[4][3]
Distribution
This species occurs in:
- Poso River, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[3]
The type locality is the upper part of the Poso River.[2]
Description
The shell is small and thick.[2] The spire is short.[2] The color of the shell is black with an violet tint.[2] The shell has five whorls.[2]
The width of the shell is 13.5 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 19 mm.[2] The width of the aperture is 8 mm.[2] The height of the aperture is 11.5 mm.[2]
References
- ↑ IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 December 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 (German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 539/540: 308-320. page 318.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2005). "Anatomy of an adaptive radiation: a unique reproductive strategy in the endemic freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) on Sulawesi, Indonesia and its biogeographical implications." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 513–542. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00515.x.
- ↑ Thiele J. (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer.
External links
Tylomelania neritiformis at the National Center for Biotechnology Information