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Tylomelania tominangensis

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Tylomelania tominangensis
An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania tominangensis.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Tylomelania
Species:
T. tominangensis
Binomial name
Tylomelania tominangensis
(Kruimel, 1913)[1]
Synonyms

Melania tominangensis Kruimel, 1913

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

The specific name tominangensis is named after the Tominanga River, where it lives.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Tominanga River and in Lake Lontoa, south Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2] Its type locality is the Tominanga River near lake Towuti.[2]

Ecology

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The females of Tylomelania tominangensis usually have 1-4 embryos in their brood pouch.[2] Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania tominangensis have a shell height of 6.8-8.5 mm.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Kruimel J. H. (1913). "Verzeichnis der von Herrn E.C. Abendanon in Celebes gesammelten Süsswasser-Mollusken". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 19: 217–235, page 225, plate 4, fig. 14.
  2. ^ a b c d von Rintelen, Bouchet P. & Glaubrecht M. (2007). "Ancient lakes as hotspots of diversity: a morphological review of an endemic species flock of Tylomelania (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in the Malili lake system on Sulawesi, Indonesia". Hydrobiologia 592:11-94. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-0765-8.