Pila saxea

Pila saxea
Drawing of a shell of Pila saxea (holotype)
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. saxea
Binomial name
Pila saxea (Reeve, 1856)
Synonyms
Ampullaria nuxReeve, 1856 Ampullaria saxeaReeve, 1856 (original combination)

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

Description

(Original description) The shell is oblong-ovate and rather solid, featuring a narrow, covered umbilicus. The spire is rather obtuse. The whorls are a little depressed around the upper part, obsoletely angled, and then rounded. The shell appears olive. The aperture is pyriformly oblong, and the columellar lip is thinly reflected. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in India and the Philippines.

References

1. Pila saxea (Reeve, 1856) . 4 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Reeve, L.A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Ampullaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10, pls 1-28 and unpaginated text. London: L. Reeve & Co. Retrieved 4 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Cowie, R.H. (2015). "The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda". Zootaxa. 3940 (1).