Brotia pagodula

Brotia pagodula
Apertural view of a shell of Brotia pagodula from the Moei River
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
Species: B. pagodula
Binomial name
Brotia pagodula
(Gould, 1847)
Synonyms[1]

Melania pagodula Gould, 1847

Brotia pagodula is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Brotia pagodula is the type species of the genus Brotia.[2]

Distribution

Distribution map of Brotia pagodula.

This species occurs in:

Apertural view of another shell of Brotia pagodula

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Simonis J. & Köhler F. (2012). "Brotia pagodula". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Köhler F., Holford, Do V. T. & Ho T. H. (2009). "Exploring a largely unknown fauna: On the diversity of pachychilid freshwater gastropods in Vietnam (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Molluscan Research 29(3): 121-146. abstract.

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