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| Species: | S. decipiens |
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| Semisulcospira decipiens (Westerlund, 1883) [2] | |
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Melania niponica var. decipiens Westerlund, 1883 | |
Semisulcospira decipiens is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae.
Type specimen were collected during the Vega Expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878–1880. [2] This species was originally described under the name Melania niponica var. decipiens by Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund in 1883. [2]
Semisulcospira decipiens belong to the Semisulcospira niponica species group. [3]
This species occurs in the Lake Biwa and in the Yodo River, Japan. [1]
The type locality is the lake Biwa. [2]
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