Tylomelania mahalonensis

Tylomelania mahalonensis
An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania mahalonensis.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Tylomelania
Species:
T. mahalonensis
Binomial name
Tylomelania mahalonensis
(Kruimel, 1913)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Melania mahalonensis Kruimel, 1913
Melania mahalonica Kruimel, 1913
Tylomelania mahalonica (Kruimel, 1913)

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

The specific name mahalonensis is taken from that of Lake Mahalona, where this species of snail lives.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Malili Lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[3] Its type locality is Lake Mahalona.[2]

Ecology

Tylomelania mahalonensis is a lacustrine species.[3]

The females of Tylomelania mahalonensis usually have 1-11 embryos in their brood pouch.[3] Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania mahalonensis have a shell height of 4.0-10.2 mm.[3]

References

  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 222, plate 4, fig. 12.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ a b c d 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.


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