Theodoxus pallasi is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
| Theodoxus pallasi | |
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| Theodoxus pallasi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Neritimorpha |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Family: | Neritidae |
| Genus: | Theodoxus |
| Species: | T. pallasi
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| Binomial name | |
| Theodoxus pallasi | |
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Neritina liturata Eichwald, 1838[3] | |
Description
editColoration, radula and operculum of Theodoxus pallasi is similar to Theodoxus schultzii.[4]
Distribution
editThe distribution of is Ponto-Caspian.[4]
This species occurs in:
- Caspian Sea
- Armenia[1]
- Kazakhstan[1]
- South Russia[1]
- Uzbekistan[1]
- It was recorded from Kerman Province and Mazandaran Province in Iran (as Theodoxus lituratus).[5]
Predators
editPredators of Theodoxus pallasi include:
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Van Damme D. & Kebapçı U. (2014). "Theodoxus pallasi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version e.T165355A42421481. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 7 November 2015.
- ^ (in Russian) Lindholm W. A. (1924). K nomenklature nektovykh kaspijskikh gastropod. Russkij Gidrobiologicheskij Zhurnal (Русский гидробиологический журнал) 3: 32-34. Saratov.
- ^ Eichwald E. (1841). "Faunæ Caspii Maris primitiæ". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 1838: 125-174. page 156.
- ^ a b c Zettler M. L. (2007). "A redescription of Theodoxus schultzii (Grimm, 1877), an endemic neritid gastropod of the Caspian Sea". Journal of Conchology 39(3): 245-251.
- ^ Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.
- ^ (in German) Ehlert W. (1964). "Zur Ökologie und Biologie der Ernährung einiger Limikolen-Arten". Journal für Ornithologie 105(1): 1-53. doi:10.1007/BF01671089.