Tylomelania towutica
| Tylomelania towutica | |
|---|---|
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| An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania towutica. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Tylomelania |
| Species: | T. towutica |
| Binomial name | |
| Tylomelania towutica (Kruimel, 1913)[2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Melania towutica Kruimel, 1913 | |
Tylomelania towutica is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
The specific name towutica is after Lake Towuti where it lives.
Distribution
This species occurs in Lake Towuti and in the Tominanga River, in south Sulawesi, Indonesia.[3] Its type locality is lake Towuti, Loeha Island.[3]
Ecology
Tylomelania towutica is a lacustrine species.[4]
The females of Tylomelania towutica usually have 1-7 embryos in their brood pouch.[4] Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania towutica have a shell height of 0.5-9.3 mm.[4]
References
- ↑ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 July 2014.
- ↑ Kruimel J. H. (1913). "Verzeichnis der von Herrn E.C. Abendanon in Celebes gesammelten Süsswasser-Mollusken". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 19: 217–235, page 220, plate 4, fig. 8.
- 1 2 von Rintelen, Bouchet P. & Glaubrecht M. (2007). "Ancient lakes as hotspots of diversity: a morphological review of an endemic species flock of Tylomelania (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the Malili lake system on Sulawesi, Indonesia". Hydrobiologia 592:11-94. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-0765-8.
- 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.
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