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Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Viviparidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Viviparoidea

Genus
  
Tchangmargarya

Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis

Scientific name
  
Margarya yangtsunghaiensis

Similar
  
Margarya, Tulotoma magnifica, Cipangopaludina, Bellamya, Rivularia

Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Contents

This species used to be assigned to Margarya, and is the type species of Tchangmargarya.

Distribution

The distribution of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis includes Yangzong Lake in Yunnan Province, China.

Description

The diploid chromosome number of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is 2n=24. Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.

References

Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis Wikipedia