Madagasikara madagascariensis

Madagasikara madagascarensis
apertural view of a shell of Madagasikara madagascariensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Madagasikara
Species: M. madagascarensis
Binomial name
Madagasikara madagascarensis
(Grateloup, 1840)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania madagascariensis Grateloup, 1840
  • Pirena madagascariensis
  • Melanatria madagascariensis
  • Melania dusabonis Grateloup, 1840
  • Melania bicarinata Grateloup, 1840
  • Pirena debeauxiana Crosse, 1862[4]
  • Melanatria debeauxiana[5]
  • Melanatria fluminea (partim)

Madagasikara madagascarensis s a species of tropical freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.[3]

This species is endemic to Madagascar.

Description

Drawing of apertural view of a shell (without some of top whorls) of Madagasikara madagascariensis.
Photo of shells.
Juvenile shells.

References

  1. ↑ Brown D. S. (1996). Melanatria madagascarensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ↑ Grateloup J.-P. S. de (1840). "Mémoire sur plusieur espèces des coquilles nouvelles ou peu connus". Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 11: 161-170. page 167, plate 4, figure 7-9.
  3. 1 2 Köhler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. (2010). "Uncovering an overlooked radiation: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Madagascar’s endemic river snails (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae: Madagasikara gen. nov.). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99: 867-894. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01390.x
  4. ↑ Crosse H. (1862). "Catalogue des espèces vivantes appartenant au genre Pirena, et description d’une espèce nouvelle". Journal de Conchyliologie 10: 397-403. page 402, plate 13, figure 6.
  5. ↑ Brot A. (1879) In: Brot A. (1874-1879). Die Melaniaceen (Melanidae) in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Nürnberg, Bauer & Raspe. page 404, plate 43, figure 4.
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