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Brotia sumatrensis

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Species of gastropod

Brotia sumatrensis
Shell of Brotia sumatrensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
Species: B. sumatrensis
Binomial name
Brotia sumatrensis
(Brot, 1875)
Synonyms
  • 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.

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.
Taxon identifiers
Brotia sumatrensis


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