Pila nevilliana

Pila nevilliana
Shell of Pila nevilliana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. nevilliana
Binomial name
Pila nevilliana (Annandale & Prashad, 1921)
Synonyms [1]
Pachylabra nevillianaAnnandale & Prashad, 1921 (original combination)

Pila nevilliana, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 35 mm, its diameter 28.5 mm.

(Original description) The species is considerably larger, stouter and more globose than Pila saxea (Reeve, 1856), the spire is more swollen, the body whorl more transverse, the aperture broader above, the suture more oblique and the sculpture of the shell coarser and less regular. The external colour is deep chestnut, with which the interior is also tinged. The peristome is white. The scar of the operculum is relatively smaller and its central ridge broader and flatter. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in India.

References

1. Pila nevilliana (Annandale & Prashad, 1921) . 1 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Annandale, T. N. & Prashad, B. (1921). "Materials for a generic revision of the freshwater gastropod molluscs of the Indian Empire. No. 4. The Indian Ampullariidae". Records of the Indian Museum. 22 (1): 11–12. Retrieved 1 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Tripathy, B.; Sajan, S.; Cowie, R. H. (2019). "Illustrated catalogue of types of Ampullariidae Gray, 1824 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the National Zoological Collection of the Zoological Survey of India, with lectotype designations". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96 (1): 12. Retrieved 1 June 2025.