Tylomelania connectens

Tylomelania connectens
An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania connectens.
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)[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[2]
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]

Lateral view of a shell of Tylomelania connectens.

Ecology

Tylomelania connectens is a riverine species.

References

  1. ↑ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015-4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 13 March 2016.
  2. ↑ (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.
  3. 1 2 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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