Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis

Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis
Shell of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis.

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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T. yangtsunghaiensis
Binomial name
Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis
(Tchang & Tsi, 1949)
Synonyms

Margarya yangtsunghaiensis Tchang & Tsi, 1949

This species used to be assigned to Margarya, and is the type species of Tchangmargarya.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis includes Yangzong Lake in Yunnan Province, China.[1][2]

Description

The diploid chromosome number of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is 2n=24.[3] Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[2]

References

  1. Di L., Jiang Y., Min W., Yeuing L., Aldridge D. & McIvor A. (2008). Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 September 2010.
  2. Zhang, L. J.; Chen, S. C.; Yang, L. T.; Jin, L.; Köhler, F. (2015). "Systematic revision of the freshwater snail Nevill, 1877 (Mollusca: Viviparidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with description of new taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (4): 760–800. doi:10.1111/zoj.12260.
  3. (in Chinese) Chen Y. X., Zhang N. G., Zhang W. & Li J. K. (1996). "The karyotype study of Margarya yaungtsunghaiensis and M. melanioides (Viviparidae)". Zoological Research 17: 94-96. (In Chinese with English abstract)


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