Tylomelania neritiformis

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Tylomelania neritiformis
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Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Tylomelania
Species:
T. neritiformis
Binomial name
Tylomelania neritiformis
Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897 [1]
Synonyms [2]

Melania neritiformis
Brotia neritiformis

Tylomelania neritiformis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Contents

Tylomelania neritiformis is the type species of the genus Tylomelania. [2] This type species was subsequently designated by Johannes Thiele in 1929. [3]

Distribution

The type locality is the upper part of the Poso River in Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1] [2]

Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis from its type description. Tylomelania neritiformis shell.png
Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis from its type description.

Description

The shell is small and thick, with a short spire and five whorls. It is black in color with a violet tint. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 539/540: 308-320. page 318.
  2. 1 2 3 von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2005). "Anatomy of an adaptive radiation: a unique reproductive strategy in the endemic freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) on Sulawesi, Indonesia and its biogeographical implications." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 513–542. doi : 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00515.x.
  3. ↑ Thiele J. (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer.


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