Theodoxus altenai

Theodoxus altenai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Neritoidea
Family: Neritidae
Subfamily: Neritininae
Tribe: Theodoxini
Genus: Theodoxus
Subgenus: Theodoxus
Species: T. altenai
Binomial name
Theodoxus altenai
Schütt, 1965[2]

Theodoxus altenai is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.[3]

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes Antalya Province in southern Turkey.[3]

The type locality is a lake near Döşemealti in Antalya Province, Turkey.[2]

Description

The shell is exceptionally thin, light horny yellowish, translucent and shiny. The Whorls are flat and very rapidly increasing, with a brown quadrangular color pattern.[3] The operculum is reddish, without an apophysis.[3]

The width of the shell is 9.0-10.0 mm.[2] The height of the shell is 6.0 - 7.0 mm.[2]

Ecology

This snail lives in lakes.[3]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[3]

  1. Van Damme, D. & Kebapçı, U. (2013). "Theodoxus altenai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 (German) Schütt H. (1965). "Zur Systematik und Ökologie türkischer Süßwasserprosobranchier". Zoologische Mededelingen 41(3): 43-72, Plate 1. abstract, PDF. page 46.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Species summary for Theodoxus altenai". AnimalBase, last modified 15 June 2010, accessed 15 April 2011.
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