Brotia sumatrensis
Shell of Brotia sumatrensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pachychilidae
Genus:
Brotia
Species:
B. sumatrensis
Binomial name
Brotia sumatrensis
(Brot, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Melania boeana Brot, 1881 (junior synonym)
  • Melania sumatrensis Brot, 1875 (original combination)

Brotia sumatrensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Previously frequently synonymized with Brotia costula, biological systematics was able to molecularly distinguish the two.[2]

Distribution

References

  1. ↑ "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Brotia sumatrensis (Brot, 1875)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Köhler, Frank.; Köhler, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias (2006). "A systematic revision of the southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia. 48: 159–251. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ↑ Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679–699. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.


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