Sulcospira testudinaria

Sulcospira testudinaria
Sulcospira testudinaria, ca. 30mm h (apex truncated) from Bogor, West Java
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Sulcospira
Species:	S. testudinaria
Binomial name
Sulcospira testudinaria (von dem Busch, 1842)[1]
Synonyms[3]
Brotia testudinaria (Busch, 1842) Melania foeda I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1850 Melania junghuhni Schepman, 1896[2] (invalid: junior homonym of Melania junghuhni Martin, 1879; M. martini is a replacement name) Melania martini Schepman, 1898 Melania martini var. flammulata Schepman, 1898 Melania testudinaria von dem Busch, 1842

Sulcospira testudinaria is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.[4]

Distribution

Young specimens

This species occurs in:

• Java[3]

References

1. von dem Busch (1842). In: Philippi R. A. (1842). "Melania I." Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Conchylien, 1(1): 1-33. Theodor Fischer, Kassel. page 3, plate 1, fig. 14.
2. Schepman M. M. (1896). "Descriptions of new Melanidae". Notes from the Leyden Museum 18: 135-139, plate 2, figure 1.
3. Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2001). "Toward a systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia H. – Adams, 1866 (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae): an account of species from around the South China Sea". Journal of Molluscan Studies 67(3): 281–318. doi:10.1093/mollus/67.3.281
4. Bouchet, P. (2014). Sulcospira testudinaria (von dem Busch, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716910 on 2014-11-08

• Marwoto R.M. & Isnaningsih N.R. (2012) "The freshwater snail genus Sulcospira Troschel, 1857 from Java, with description of a new species from Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pachychilidae)." The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(1): 1–10.