Semisulcospira kurodai

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Semisulcospira kurodai
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A live individual of Semisulcospira kurodai viewed through the glass of an aquarium
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S. kurodai
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Semisulcospira kurodai
Kajiyama & Habe, 1961 [1]

Semisulcospira kurodai is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Semisulcospiridae. Before 2009, this species was classified in the family Pleuroceridae.

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Semisulcospira kurodai

Distribution

This species occurs in Japan.

Description

The maximum width of the shell of Semisulcospira kurodai is 13.3 millimetres (0.52 in) [2] and 52.0 millimetres (2.05 in) in height in the laboratory. [2] The maximum weight of the animal in the laboratory is 7.7 grams (0.27 oz). [2]

The width of the shell is 10.3 millimetres (0.41 in) in the first year, 11.0 millimetres (0.43 in) in the second year, 11.5 to 11.8 millimetres (0.45 to 0.46 in) in the third year and 12.0 millimetres (0.47 in) in the fourth year in the laboratory. [2]

The diploid chromosome number of Semisulcospira kurodai is 2n=35 and 2n=36 (both chromosome numbers were observed). [3]

Ecology

Habitat

Semisulcospira kurodai lives in rivers and in ponds. [4]

Life cycle

The female has 17 to 72 embryos in its brood pouch. [4] One female can give life to 62 to 79 newborn snails in the laboratory. [2]

The average size of the shell of a newborn snail varies according to the locality from 1.2 to 1.4 millimetres (0.047 to 0.055 in) in width and from 1.9 to 2.1 millimetres (0.075 to 0.083 in) in the height of the shell. [4]

Semisulcospira kurodai can live up to four years in the laboratory. [2]

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References

  1. (in Japanese) Kajiyama H. & Habe T. (1961). "Two new forms of the Japanese melanians; Semisulcospira". Venus21(2): 167-176. page 173. fig. 1-3.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 (in Japanese) Takami A. (1995). "室内飼育におけるクロダカワニナの成長と産仔数 [Growth and Number of Newborns in Semisulcospira kurodai (Prosobranchia: Pleuroceridae) Reared in the Laboratory]". Venus54(2): 123-132. CiNii.
  3. Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of Semisulcospira in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". Malacologia 7: 211-294.
  4. 1 2 3 (in Japanese) Takami A. (1997). "クロダカワニナの分布と成貝および新生貝の種内変異 [Distribution and Intraspecific Variation in Adult and Newborn Shells of Semisulcospira kurodai (Prosobranchia: Pleuroceridae)]". Venus56(4): 305-317. CiNii.

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