Margarya mansuyi
| Margarya mansuyi | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Margarya mansuyi. Scale bar is 1 cm. | |
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| Abapertural view of the shell of Margarya mansuyi. Scale bar is 1 cm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Margarya |
| Species: | M. mansuyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Margarya mansuyi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905[2] | |
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Margarya mansuyi is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
Distribution
The distribution of Margarya mansuyi includes Xingyun Lake and Qilu Lake in Yunnan Province, China.[3]
The former distribution of this species also included Yilong Lake, Dian Lake and Datunhai Lake (Datun Lake).[3]
Description
Shu et al. (2010) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[4]
References
- 1 2 Di L., Jiang Y., Aldridge D. & McIvor A. (2008). Margarya mansuyi. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 September 2010.
- ↑ Dautzenberg P. & Fischer H. (1905). "Liste de mollusques récoltéspar M. Mansuy en Indo-Chine et description d'espècesnouvelles." Journal de Conchyliologie 53: 343-471. page 423-424, figs 2-4.
- 1 2 "The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM 2009 update. Mollusc Facts". 5 pp., accessed 14 September 2010.
- ↑ Shu F., Köhler F. & Wang H. (2010). "On the shell and radular morphology of two endangered species of the genus Margarya Nevill, 1877 (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) from lakes of the Yunnan Plateau, Southwest China." Molluscan Research 30(1): 17-24.
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