''Filopaludina sumatrensis'' is a
species
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of large
freshwater snail
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with a
gill
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and an
operculum, an
aquatic gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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in the family
Viviparidae
Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa according to the taxonomy of ...
.
[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]
Subspecies
* ''Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis''
Brandt
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Elsewhere
* Mount Brandt, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
* Brandt Cove, South Georgia Is ...
, 1974[, accessed 2 June 2014.]
* ''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
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,
Indonesia
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,
Laos
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,
Malaysia
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,
Myanmar
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,
Singapore
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,
Thailand
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and
Vietnam
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.
Description
The width of the shell is 21 mm.
The height of the shell is 32 mm.
[ 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 276–277table 56
fig. 9–12.
References
* Brandt R. A. M. (1974). ''The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand''. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i–iv, 1–423
External links
Viviparidae
{{Viviparidae-stub