Tylomelania connectens

Tylomelania connectens
	An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania connectens.
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Tylomelania
Species:	T. connectens
Binomial name
	Tylomelania connectens; Sarasin & Sarasin, 1898
Synonyms
	Tylomelania porcellanica var. connectens Sarasin & Sarasin, 1898

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

This species was originally described as a subspecies.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in Poso River, Sulawesi, Indonesia.^[3]

Tylomelania connectens is a riverine species.

^ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 March 2016.
^ (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. 55, table 4, figure 54-55.
^ ^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.

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