Biology:Margarya oxytropoides

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Margarya oxytropoides
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M. oxytropoides
Binomial name
Margarya oxytropoides
(Heude, 1889)
Synonyms[1]

Cipangopaludina dianchiensis Zhang, 1990 Margarya melanioides dianchiensis Huang, 2007

Margarya oxytropoides is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Distribution

The distribution of Margarya francheti includes Dian Lake, Lugu Lake, and small lakes around Zhaotong in Yunnan Province, China.[1]

Description

Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Zhang, L. J.; Chen, S. C.; Yang, L. T.; Jin, L.; Köhler, F. (2015). "Systematic revision of the freshwater snail Nevill, 1877 (Mollusca: Viviparidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with description of new taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (4): 760–800. doi:10.1111/zoj.12260. 

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