Tylomelania sinabartfeldi

Tylomelania sinabartfeldi
	An apertural view of a shell of a holotype of Tylomelania sinabartfeldi.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Tylomelania
Species:	T. sinabartfeldi
Binomial name
	Tylomelania sinabartfeldi; von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2008

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

The specific name sinabartfeldi is in honor of Sina Bartfeld, who contributed to supporting the malacological research.^[1]

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Larona River, in Sulawesi, Indonesia.^[1] Its type locality is the Larona River.^[1]

An abapertural view of a shell of a holotype of Tylomelania sinabartfeldi.

The females of Tylomelania sinabartfeldi usually have 11-67 embryos in their brood pouch.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2008). "Three new species of the freshwater snail genus Tylomelania (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system, Sulawesi, Indonesia". Zootaxa 1852: 37-49. PDF.

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