Brotia herculea

Brotia herculea
Apertural view of a shell of Brotia herculea including operculum. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
Species: B. herculea
Binomial name
Brotia herculea
(Gould, 1846)
Synonyms[1][2][3]

Melania herculea Gould, 1846
Melanoides herculea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Melania balteata Reeve, 1860
Melania gloriosa Anthony, 1865
Melania peguensis Hanley & Theobald, 1876
Melania reevei Brot, 1862
Melania reevei var. imbricata Hanley & Theobald, 1876
Melania reevei var. lanceolata Nevill, 1884
Melania reevei var. soliduscula Nevill, 1884
Melania tourannensis var. beddomeana Nevill, 1885
Melania tourannensis var. compacta Nevill, 1885

Brotia herculea is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Myanmar and Thailand.[2]

Human use

It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Köhler, F. & Simonis, J. (2012). Brotia herculea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T184819A1754715. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T184819A1754715.en. Downloaded on 29 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2006). "A systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia 48: 159-251.
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase (2018). Brotia herculea (Gould, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057844 on 2018-09-11
  4. ↑ Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130


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