Sinotaia quadrata
| Sinotaia quadrata Temporal range: Upper Pleistocene[1]-recent | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
| Genus: | Sinotaia |
| Species: | S. quadrata |
| Binomial name | |
| Sinotaia quadrata (Benson, 1842) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
|
Bellamya quadrata (Benson, 1842) | |
Sinotaia quadrata is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
Subspecies
Subspecies within this species include:
- Sinotaia quadrata quadrata
- Sinotaia quadrata histrica (Gould, 1859)[3] or as a separate species Sinotaia histrica[4]
- Viviparus quadratus disparis
- Viviparus quadratus grahami Chen, 1945[5]
Distribution
This species is found in>
This species is also known from Upper Pleistocene of China.[1]
Ecology
Habitat
The habitat of Sinotaia quadrata are rivers and lakes.[8]
The pollution tolerance value is 6 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).[9]
Feeding habits
Sinotaia quadrata feeds on epiphytic algae.[8]
Sinotaia quadrata histrica snails predate also on eggs of bluegill Lepomis macrochirus.[3]
Life cycle
Sinotaia quadrata has strong fecundity.[8]
Human use
Sinotaia quadrata is common animal food used in aquaculture to feed fish black carp[10] in China.[8]
This species is also eaten by humans. In Isan, Thailand they are collected by hand or with a handnet from canals, swamps, ponds and flooded rice paddy fields during the rainy season. During the dry season, snails live under dried mud. Collectors use a spade to scrape the ground to find and catch them. Generally they are collected by both men and women.[6] The snails are then cleaned and cooked in a curry. They are also parboiled in salted water and eat together with green papaya salad.[6]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from reference.[6]
- 1 2 Teng-Chien Yen. 1943. Review and summary of Tertiary and Quaternary non-marine mollusks of China.. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. XCV, 1943). 267-309. Page 284.
- 1 2 Köhler F. & Richter K. (2012). "Sinotaia quadrata". In: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T166310A1129870. Downloaded on 23 November 2015.
- 1 2 (in Japanese) Nakao H., Kawabata T., Fujita K., Nakai K. & Sawada H. (2006). "Predation on bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) broods by native snails. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 53(2): 167–173. PDF.
- ↑ Xie L., Yokoyama A., Nakamura K., & Park H. (2007). "Accumulation of microcystins in various organs of the freshwater snail Sinotaia histrica and three fishes in a temperate lake, the eutrophic Lake Suwa, Japan". Toxicon 49(5): 646-652. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.11.004.
- ↑ Sui-Fong Chen. (1945). "Two new species, one new subspecies and one new name of Chinese Viviparidae". The Nautilus 59(2): 63-66. page 65, plate 7.
- 1 2 3 4 Setalaphruk C. & Price L. L. (2007). "Children's traditional ecological knowledge of wild food resources: a case study in a rural village in Northeast Thailand". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 3: 33. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-33
- ↑ Species: Viviparus quadratus Bs. accessed 21 September 2009
- 1 2 3 4 Shan Jian 1985.Integrated fish farming in China. Training manual. Chapter III Pond fertilization and fish feeds. Network of Agriculture centres in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. 371 pp.
- ↑ Young S.-S., Yang H.-N., Huang D.-J., Liu S.-M., Huang Y.-H., Chiang C.-T. & Liu, J.-W. (2014). "Using Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities as Bioindicators of the Tanshui River Basin Around the Greater Taipei Area — Multivariate Analysis of Spatial Variation Related to Levels of Water Pollution". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 11(7): 7116–7143. doi:10.3390/ijerph110707116.
- ↑ NACA 1989. Yu Shigang. Integrated fish farming in China Chapter 3 POND FERTILIZATION AND FISH FEEDS. Pond Fertilization. Integrated Fish Farming in China. NACA Technical Manual 7. A World Food Day Publication of the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. 278 pp.,accessed 22 September 2009.