Brotia

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Brotia
Temporal range: Miocene - recent
Brotia pagodula.jpg
Shell of Brotia pagodula
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
H. Adams, 1866 [1]
Type species
Melania pagodula
Gould, 1847
Synonyms
  • Antimelania P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892 [2]
  • Brotia (Brotia)H. Adams, 1866
  • Melania (Brotia)Adams, 1866
  • WangaChen, 1943

Brotia is a genus of Southeast Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family Pachychilidae. [3]

Contents

The generic name Brotia is apparently in honor of a Swiss malacologist Auguste Louis Brot (1821-1896).

Distribution of Brotia Brotia distribution.jpg
Distribution of Brotia

Distribution

Species of Brotia occur in freshwater habitats of Southeast Asia, ranging from Northern India in the west through to Sumatra in the east. This range includes India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (1 species), [4] Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra and Borneo only).

Biology

Species are found predominantly in fast flowing, well oxygenated rivers, occasionally also in lakes. They are gonochoristic, and viviparous, retaining developing eggs and youngs in special brood pouch.

Species

Species within the genus Brotia include:

Synonyms:

Variability of shells of Brotia (images in the first row are in the same ratio):

Brotia citrina Brotia citrina shell.png
Brotia citrina
Brotia episcopalis Brotia episcopalis shell.png
Brotia episcopalis
Brotia pagodula Brotia pagodula shell 2.png
Brotia pagodula
Brotia sumatrensis Brotia sumatrensis shell.png
Brotia sumatrensis
Brotia verbecki Brotia verbecki shell.png
Brotia verbecki

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References

  1. ↑ Adams H. (1866). "Description of a new genus and a new species of mollusks". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 150-151.
  2. ↑ Fischer P. & Crosse H. (1892). "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale". Recherches zoologiques, Partie 7, 2(13): 117-392.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2006). "A systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia 48: 159-251.
  4. 1 2 Köhler F., Du L.-N. & Yang J.-X. (2010). "A new species of Brotia from Yunnan, China (Caenogastropoda, Pachychilidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 295-300. doi : 10.1002/zoos.201000012.
  5. 1 2 3 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.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2001). "Toward a systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia H. – Adams, 1866 (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae): an account of species from around the South China Sea". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67(3): 281-318. doi : 10.1093/mollus/67.3.281
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