Brotia sumatrensis

Brotia sumatrensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Previously frequently synonymized with Brotia costula, biological systematics was able to molecularly distinguish the two.[2]

Brotia sumatrensis
Shell of Brotia sumatrensis
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B. sumatrensis
Binomial name
Brotia sumatrensis
(Brot, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
  • Melania boeana Brot, 1881 (junior synonym)
  • Melania sumatrensis Brot, 1875 (original combination)

Distribution

References

  1. "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Brotia sumatrensis (Brot, 1875)". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. 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.
  3. Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679–699. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.


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