Tylomelania lalemae
Appearance
Tylomelania lalemae | |
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An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania lalemae. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Pachychilidae |
Genus: | Tylomelania |
Species: | T. lalemae
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Binomial name | |
Tylomelania lalemae | |
Synonyms | |
Melania lalemae Kruimel, 1913 |
Tylomelania lalemae is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in Malili Lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2]
Ecology
[edit]Tylomelania lalemae is a lacustrine species.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Kruimel J. H. (1913). "Verzeichnis der von Herrn E.C. Abendanon in Celebes gesammelten Süsswasser-Mollusken". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 19: 217–235, page 224, plate 4, fig. 10.
- ^ 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.