Biology:Theodoxus pallasi

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Theodoxus pallasi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Neritininae
Tribe:
Theodoxini
Genus:
Subgenus:
Theodoxus
Species:
T. pallasi
Binomial name
Theodoxus pallasi
Lindholm, 1924[2]
Synonyms[4]

Neritina liturata Eichwald, 1838[3]
Theodoxus lituratus (Eichwald, 1838)

Theodoxus pallasi is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Description

Coloration, radula and operculum of Theodoxus pallasi is similar to Theodoxus schultzii.[4]

Distribution

The distribution of is Ponto-Caspian.[4]

This species occurs in:

  • Caspian Sea
  • Armenia[1]
  • Kazakhstan[1]
  • South Russia[1]
  • Uzbekistan[1]
  • It was recorded from Kerman Province and Mazandaran Province in Iran (as Theodoxus lituratus).[5]

Predators

Predators of Theodoxus pallasi include:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Van Damme D. & Kebapçı U. (2014). "Theodoxus pallasi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version e.T165355A42421481. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 7 November 2015.
  2. (in Russian) Lindholm W. A. (1924). K nomenklature nektovykh kaspijskikh gastropod. Russkij Gidrobiologicheskij Zhurnal (Русский гидробиологический журнал) 3: 32-34. Saratov.
  3. Eichwald E. (1841). "Faunæ Caspii Maris primitiæ". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 1838: 125-174. page 156.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Zettler M. L. (2007). "A redescription of Theodoxus schultzii (Grimm, 1877), an endemic neritid gastropod of the Caspian Sea". Journal of Conchology 39(3): 245-251.
  5. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.
  6. (in German) Ehlert W. (1964). "Zur Ökologie und Biologie der Ernährung einiger Limikolen-Arten". Journal für Ornithologie 105(1): 1-53. doi:10.1007/BF01671089.

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