''Semisulcospira decipiens'' is a

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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, an aquatic

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in the family

Semisulcospiridae Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospiridae J. P. E. Morri ...

Taxonomy

Type specimen were collected during the ''Vega'' Expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878–1880. This species was originally described under the name ''Melania niponica''

var. In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in la, varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form. As such, it gets a three-part infraspecific name. It is sometimes recommended that the ...

''decipiens'' by Swedish malacologist

Carl Agardh Westerlund Carl Agardh Westerlund (12 January 1831 – 28 February 1908 in Ronneby) was a Swedish malacologist. Biography Westerlund was born at Berga in Kalmar County, Sweden. He became a student in Uppsala University in 1853 and studied at Lund Unive ...

in 1883. ''Semisulcospira decipiens'' belong to the ''

Semisulcospira niponica ''Semisulcospira niponica'' is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Semisulcospiridae. Distribution This species occurs in the Lake Biwa, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and form ...

'' species group.Davis G. M. (1969). "A taxonomic study of some species of ''Semisulcospira'' in Japan (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae)". '' Malacologia'' 7
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Distribution

This species occurs in the Lake Biwa and in the Yodo River,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The type locality is the lake Biwa.

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Semisulcospiridae {{Semisulcospiridae-stub