Tylomelania palicolarum

Tylomelania palicolarum
Not listed in IUCN Red List[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Tylomelania
Species: T. palicolarum
Binomial name
Tylomelania palicolarum
(Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897)[2]
Synonyms

Melania palicolarum Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897

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

The specific name palicolarum is according to the Latin words "pile" that means "pile" and Latin word "colus". The specific name refer to stilt houses that were built around the lake.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Malili lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2] It occur in the single lake and the type locality is the lake Towuti.[2]

Description

The shell has 6-8 whorls.[2]

The width of the shell is 25 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 73 mm.[2] The width of the aperture is 13.5 mm.[2] The height of the aperture is 23 mm.[2]

There are 6-7 concentric lines on the operculum.[2]

References

  1. ↑ IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 539/540: 308-320. page 312.

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