Superfamily Neritoidea Subfamily Neritininae Rank Species | Tribe Theodoxini | |
Similar Theodoxus, Theodoxus meridionalis, Theodoxus anatolicus, Theodoxus prevostianus, Theodoxus danubialis | ||
Theodoxus altenai is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
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Distribution
The distribution of this species includes Antalya Province in southern Turkey.
The type locality is a lake near Döşemealti in Antalya Province, Turkey.
Description
The shell is exceptionally thin, light horny yellowish, translucent and shiny. The Whorls are flat and very rapidly increasing, with a brown quadrangular color pattern. The operculum is reddish, without an apophysis.
The width of the shell is 9.0-10.0 mm. The height of the shell is 6.0 - 7.0 mm.
Ecology
This snail lives in lakes.
References
Theodoxus altenai Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA