Pila africana

Pila africana
Shell of Pila africana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. africana
Binomial name
Pila africana (E. von Martens, 1886)
Synonyms [2]
Ampullaria africanaE. von Martens, 1886 (original combination)

Pila africana, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in West Africa in Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast and in Chad

Description

The height of the shell varies between 35 mm and 40 mm, its diameter between 32 mm and 38 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is globose and perforate, appearing chestnut-brown or blackish, and shows very fine spiral striations under a lens. It may have no bands, or they might be obsolete. The spire is short, eroded, and abraded. It comprises four convex whorls, separated by a deep suture. The body whorl is inflated and slightly attenuated at the base. The aperture is ovate-elliptical, occupying three-quarters of the shell's length, slightly broader below, and rounded at the base, with more than half of the lower part of the columellar margin being free and yellowish. ^[3]

References

1. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Pila africana
2. Pila africana (E. von Martens, 1886) . 28 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
3. Martens, E. von (1886). "Vorzeigung einiger Land- und Süsswasser-Schnecken von Celebes und von der Goldküste". Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1886: 114. Retrieved 28 May 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Köhler, F.; Glaubrecht, M. (2006). "The types of Ampullariidae Gray, 1824 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Malacological Collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin: an annotated catalogue with lectotype designations". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde, Zoologische Reihe. 82 (1): 198–215.