Brotia episcopalis

Brotia episcopalis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Brotia episcopalis
Apertural view of the shell of Brotia episcopalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pachychilidae
Genus:
Brotia
Species:
B. episcopalis
Binomial name
Brotia episcopalis
(H. C. Lea & I. Lea, 1851)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Melania (Melanoides) palembangensis Strubell, 1897 (junior synonym)
  • Melania episcopalis I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (original combination)
  • Melania heros Brot, 1877 (junior synonym)
  • Melania palembangensis Strubell, 1897
  • Sermyla chaperi de Morgan, 1885 (junior synonym)
  • Sermyla perakensis de Morgan, 1885 (junior synonym)

Taxonomy

In the 20th century, B. episcopalis was frequently synonymized with Brotia costula due to cryptically similar shell morphology. In the 21st century molecular data was able to distinguish this species.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

Human use

Evidence of B. episcopalis being used as food has been discovered in Neolithic archaeological sites in Malaysia.[4]

References
  1. Köhler F. & Simonis J. (2012). "Brotia episcopalis". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  2. "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Brotia episcopalis (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. Köhler, Frank.; Köhler, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias (2006). "A systematic revision of the southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia. 48: 159–251. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Albert, Deejay (1 August 2019). A Study on the Mollusc Remains from Archaeological Sites in Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia (Thesis).


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.