Tylomelania neritiformis
| Tylomelania neritiformis | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania neritiformis | |
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Not listed in IUCN Red List
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Tylomelania |
| Species: | T. neritiformis |
| Binomial name | |
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Tylomelania neritiformis Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Melania neritiformis |
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clade Sorbeoconcha
Melania neritiformis
Brotia neritiformis
Tylomelania neritiformis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Tylomelania neritiformis is the type species of the genus Tylomelania. This type species was subsequently designated by Johannes Thiele in 1929.
This species occurs in:
The type locality is the upper part of the Poso River.
The shell is small and thick. The spire is short. The color of the shell is black with an violet tint. The shell has five whorls.
The width of the shell is 13.5 mm. The height of the shell is 19 mm. The width of the aperture is 8 mm. The height of the aperture is 11.5 mm.
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