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Margarya monodi

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Margarya monodi
Shell of Margarya monodi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Margarya
Species:
M. monodi
Binomial name
Margarya monodi
Synonyms[3][4][5]
  • Margarya (Margarya) monodi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1905 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Margarya elongata Tchang & Tsi, 1949
  • Margarya yini (Tchang & Tsi, 1949)
  • Margarya melanioides var. monodi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905
  • Margarya tchangsii Xia, 1982

Margarya monodi is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.[3]

This species appears to be endemic to Lake Dianchi, in Yunnan Province, China.

These snails are collected commercially and used as medicine and food.

Threats

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This snail is no longer abundant as it was before the 1980s, when fishermen took as much as 20 kg a day per person. Currently during the open fishing season the fishermen can find only 2 kg a day. In 1999 there were still snails in the eastern part of the lake but by 2009 the snail was found only in the 50 km² of the lake that is near the outflow.

Threats to this snail species' survival include organic and inorganic pollution, overharvesting and some introduced species of predatory fish.

References

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  1. ^ Jiang, Y.; McIvor, A.; Aldridge, D.; Di, L. (2009). "Margarya monodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T168214A6466980. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T168214A6466980.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Dautzenberg P. & Fischer H. (1905). "Liste de mollusques récoltéspar M. Mansuy en Indo-Chine et description d'espècesnouvelles." Journal de Conchyliologie 53: 343-471. page 423, fig. 1.
  3. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2014). Margarya monodi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758792 on 2014-12-10
  4. ^ He, J (2013). "A conchological review of Margarya-complex (Gastropoda: Viviparidae)". Shell Discoveries. 2: 2–15.
  5. ^ Zhang, L. J.; Chen, S. C.; Yang, L. T.; Jin, L.; Köhler, F. (2015). "Systematic revision of the freshwater snail Nevill, 1877 (Mollusca: Viviparidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with description of new taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (4): 760–800. doi:10.1111/zoj.12260.