Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Cerithioidea Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Pachychilidae Genus Tylomelania | |
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Similar Tylomelania, Tylomelania patriarchalis, Tylomelania gemmifera, Tylomelania towutica, Tylomelania perfecta | ||
Tylomelania towutensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Contents
The specific name towutensis is according to the lake Towuti.
Distribution
This species occurs in Malili lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. It occur in the single lake and the type locality is the lake Towuti.
Description
The shell has 6-9 whorls.
The width of the shell is 20 mm. The height of the shell is 62 mm. The width of the aperture is 12 mm. The height of the aperture is 20 mm.
There are 6-7 concentric lines on the operculum.
References
Tylomelania towutensis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA