''Philopotamis sulcatus'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of a

freshwater snail Freshwater snails are gastropod mollusks which live in fresh water. There are many different families. They are found throughout the world in various habitats, ranging from ephemeral pools to the largest lakes, and from small seeps and springs ...

with an operculum, aquatic

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family

Paludomidae Paludomidae, common name paludomids, is a family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. Distribution The distribution of the Paludomidae includes Asia and Africa. Taxonomy The following three subfamilies have be ...

. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Philopotamis sulcatus (Reeve, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1305404 on 2022-04-22

Distribution

This species occurs in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

References

* Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.

External links

Reeve, L. A. (1847). Monograph of the genus Paludomus. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 4, pls. 1-3 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.

Blanford, W. T. (1881). Contributions to Indian malacology, No. XII. Descriptions of new land and freshwater shells from Southern and Western India, Burmah, the Andaman Islands, &c. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 49

Brot, A. (1880). Die Gattung Paludomus auct. (Tanalia, Stomatodon, Philopotamis, Paludomus) (Melaniaceen). In: Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, ed. 2, Bd 1, Abt. 25: 1-52, pls. 3-8. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe.
Paludomidae Gastropods described in 1847 {{Paludomidae-stub