''Stenomelania torulosa'' is a species 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 ...

, an 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 in the family Thiaridae.

Distribution

India

Ecology

The

pollution tolerance value Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the ...

is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).Young S.-S., Yang H.-N., Huang D.-J., Liu S.-M., Huang Y.-H., Chiang C.-T. & Liu, J.-W. (2014). "Using Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities as Bioindicators of the Tanshui River Basin Around the Greater Taipei Area — Multivariate Analysis of Spatial Variation Related to Levels of Water Pollution". '' International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health'' 11(7): 7116–7143. .

References

External links

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Lea I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19

Jonas, J. H. (1844). Beschreibung neuer Melanien. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 1: 49-52

Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie

Dohrn, H. (1858). Descriptions of new species of land and freshwater shells collected in Ceylon, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 26(1): 133-135
Thiaridae Gastropods described in 1789 {{Thiaridae-stub