Melanoides tuberculata (Mueller, 1774)

Sulthana, Rehanuma, Laskar, Boni A. & Deepa, J., 2020, On the collection of Freshwater Mollusca from Bastar Plateau Zone, Chhattisgarh, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 120 (4), pp. 461-469 : 465

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v120/i4/2020/143316

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scientific name

Melanoides tuberculata (Mueller, 1774)
status

 

6. Melanoides tuberculata (Mueller, 1774) View in CoL

Material examined: FBRC /ZSI/INV/1535, 07 ex, Indravati river , Jagdalpur, 17.i.2018 FBRC /ZSI/INV/1587, 02 ex, Chitrakote , Jagdalpur, 19.i.2018 ; FBRC /ZSI/INV/1594, 02 ex, Dankani river , Bastar, 20.i.2018 .

Shell characters: Shell sculptured with vertical ribs and spiral striations; 10-14 whorls; height of the spire 5 times that of aperture; central teeth of radula usually with 11 cusps; shell covered with brownish spots and longitudinal stripes.

Distribution in India: Common throughout India.

Genus Tarebia Adams, 1854

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Thiaridae

Genus

Melanoides

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