Tylomelania neritiformis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
| Tylomelania neritiformis | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Tylomelania |
| Species: | T. neritiformis
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| Binomial name | |
| Tylomelania neritiformis | |
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Melania neritiformis | |
Tylomelania neritiformis is the type species of the genus Tylomelania.[2] This type species was subsequently designated by Johannes Thiele in 1929.[3]
Distribution
editThe type locality is the upper part of the Poso River in Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1][2]
Description
editThe shell is small and thick, with a short spire and five whorls. It is black in color with a violet tint.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1897). "Über die Molluskenfauna der großen Süßwasser-Seen von Central-Celebes". Zoologischer Anzeiger 539/540: 308-320. page 318.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Thiele J. (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer.