Taia naticoides is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae - commonly known as river snails.

Taia naticoides
Taia naticoides shell
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clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
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T. naticoides
Binomial name
Taia naticoides
(Theobald, 1865)

Human use edit

It is used as a freshwater aquarium pet.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Patoka, J., Kopecký, O., Vrabec, V., & Kalous, L. (2017). "Aquarium molluscs as a case study in risk assessment of incidental freshwater fauna". Biological Invasions 19(7): 2039-2046. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1412-6.

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