Tylomelania zeamais

Tylomelania zeamais
Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania zeamais
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Tylomelania
Species:	T. zeamais
Binomial name
Tylomelania zeamais (Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897) [1]
Synonyms
Melania zea mays Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897

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

Distribution

This species occurs in Malili lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. ^[1] It occur in the single lake and the type locality is the Lake Matano. ^[1]

Description

The shell has 7-8 whorls. ^[1]

The width of the shell is 13 mm. ^[1] The height of the shell is 29 mm. ^[1] The width of the aperture is 7.5 mm. ^[1] The height of the aperture is 11.5 mm. ^[1]

There are 6 concentric lines on the operculum. ^[1]

References

1. (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 539/540: 308-320. page 314.

External links

• 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.