Tricula montana
| Tricula montana | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Pomatiopsidae |
| Subfamily: | Triculinae |
| Tribe: | Triculuni |
| Genus: | Tricula |
| Species: | T. montana |
| Binomial name | |
| Tricula montana Benson, 1843 | |
Tricula montana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Tricula montana is the type species of the genus Tricula.[2]
Distribution
The distribution of Tricula montana includes Assam, Uttarakhand in India, and Nepal.[1]
Ecology
This freshwater snail lives in springs, streams and small rivers.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Budha P. B. (2010). Tricula montana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 July 2011.
- ↑ Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.
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