Biology:Brotia citrina

Brotia citrina
	Apertural view of a shell of Brotia citrina
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Brotia
Species:	B. citrina
Binomial name
	Brotia citrina; (Brot, 1868)
Synonyms
	Melania citrina Brot, 1868; Melania dugasti Morlet, 1893; Melanica citrinoides Brot, 1886

Short description: Species of gastropod

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

Distribution

This species occurs in:

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Rintelen T. (2011). "Brotia citrina". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 5 November 2012.
↑ 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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Brotia citrina

Apertural view of a shell of Brotia citrina
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Brotia
Species:	B. citrina
Binomial name
*Brotia citrina* (Brot, 1868)
Synonyms^[1]
Melania citrina Brot, 1868 Melania dugasti Morlet, 1893 Melanica citrinoides Brot, 1886