Filopaludina sumatrensis

Filopaludina sumatrensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.[3]

Filopaludina sumatrensis
A collection of shells of Filopaludina sumatrensis (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Genus:
Filopaludina
Species:
F. sumatrensis
Binomial name
Filopaludina sumatrensis
(Dunker, 1852)[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Filopaludina (Filopaludina) sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Filopaludina (Filopaludina) sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Filopaludina sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Paludina sumatrensis Dunker, 1852

Subspecies
  • Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis Brandt, 1974[4]
  • Filopaludina sumatrensis polygramma (Martens, 1860)
  • Filopaludina sumatrensis speciosa (Deshayes, 1876)
  • Filopaludina sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) represented as Filopaludina sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) (alternate representation)

Distribution

This species is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.[1]

Description

The width of the shell is 21 mm.[5] The height of the shell is 32 mm.[5]

References
  1. Köhler F., Sri-aroon P. & Simonis J. (2012). "Filopaludina sumatrensis". In: IUCN 2014. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 June 2014.
  2. (in Latin) Dunker W. (1852). "Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 9: 125–128], 189–191. page 128
  3. Bouchet, P. (2014). Filopaludina sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=827309 on 2014-12-09
  4. "Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)., accessed 2 June 2014.
  5. (in German) Kobelt W. (1909). "Die Gattung Paludina Lam. (Vivipara Montfort) (Neue Folge). In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen". Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, Nürnberg, 1(21a): pp. 97–430, plates 15–77. pages 276–277, table 56, fig. 9–12.
  • Brandt R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i–iv, 1–423

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