Tricula montana

Tricula montana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Triculinae
Tribe: Triculuni
Genus: Tricula
Species: T. montana
Binomial name
Tricula montana
Benson, 1843

Tricula montana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Tricula montana is the type species of the genus Tricula.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Tricula montana includes Assam, Uttarakhand in India, and Nepal.[1]

Ecology

This freshwater snail lives in springs, streams and small rivers.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Budha P. B. (2010). Tricula montana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 July 2011.
  2. Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
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