Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Pachychilidae Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea Genus Tylomelania | |
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Similar Tylomelania, Tylomelania perfecta, Tylomelania gemmifera, Tylomelania towutensis, Tylomelania patriarchalis | ||
Tylomelania neritiformis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
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Tylomelania neritiformis is the type species of the genus Tylomelania. This type species was subsequently designated by Johannes Thiele in 1929.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
The type locality is the upper part of the Poso River.
Description
The shell is small and thick. The spire is short. The color of the shell is black with an violet tint. The shell has five whorls.
The width of the shell is 13.5 mm. The height of the shell is 19 mm. The width of the aperture is 8 mm. The height of the aperture is 11.5 mm.
References
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