Tylomelania carota
| Tylomelania carota | |
|---|---|
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| An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania carota. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Tylomelania |
| Species: | T. carota |
| Binomial name | |
| Tylomelania carota | |
| Synonyms | |
| Melania carota Sarasin & Sarasin, 1898 | |
Tylomelania carota is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Kalaena River drainage, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2]
Ecology
Tylomelania carota is a riverine species.[2]
References
- ^ (in German) Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898). Die Süßwassermollusken von Celebes. Band 1. In: Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1898–1901). Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes. Kreidel's Verlag, Wiesbaden. page 28, table 3, figure 28-29; tab. 5, fig. 69; tab. 6, fig. 92.
- ^ a b 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.