Sulcospira testudinaria

Sulcospira testudinaria
Sulcospira testudinaria, ca. 30mm h (apex truncated)
from Bogor, West Java
Not listed in IUCN Red List[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
Species: S. testudinaria
Binomial name
Sulcospira testudinaria
(von dem Busch, 1842)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Brotia testudinaria (Busch, 1842)
  • Melania foeda I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1850
  • Melania junghuhni Schepman, 1896[4] (invalid: junior homonym of Melania junghuhni Martin, 1879; M. martini is a replacement name)
  • Melania martini Schepman, 1898
  • Melania martini var. flammulata Schepman, 1898
  • Melania testudinaria von dem Busch, 1842

Sulcospira testudinaria is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. [5]

Distribution

Young specimens

This species occurs in:

References

  1. ↑ IUCN (2012). IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 November 2012.
  2. ↑ von dem Busch (1842). In: Philippi R. A. (1842). "Melania I." Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Conchylien, 1(1): 1-33. Theodor Fischer, Kassel. page 3, plate 1, fig. 14.
  3. 1 2 Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2001). "Toward a systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia H. – Adams, 1866 (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae): an account of species from around the South China Sea". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67(3): 281-318. doi:10.1093/mollus/67.3.281
  4. ↑ Schepman M. M. (1896). "Descriptions of new Melanidae". Notes from the Leyden Museum 18: 135-139, plate 2, figure 1.
  5. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Sulcospira testudinaria (von dem Busch, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716910 on 2014-11-08


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