Biology:Thiara amarula

Short description: Species of gastropod

Thiara amarula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Thiara
Species:	T. amarula
Binomial name
Thiara amarula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Helix amarula Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Melania coacta Mörch, 1872 (junior synonym) Melania cybele A. Gould, 1847 (junior synonym) Melania diadema I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (junior synonym) Melania holoserica Leschke, 1912 · Melania speciosa A. Adams, 1853 (junior synonym) Melania thiarella Lamarck, 1822 (junior synonym) Melania villosa Philippi, 1849 (junior synonym) Melania villosa var. elongata Schepman, 1918 (preoccupied) Thiara amaruloidea Iredale, 1943 Thiara vouamica Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym)

Thiara amarula is a species of freshwater gastropod belonging to the family Thiaridae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 32 mm.

Distribution

The species is found in Malesia and the coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans off Queensland, Australia, southeastern Africa, and Madagascar.

References

• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275
• Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1974). Les Mollusques terrestres des Iles Comores. Mémoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Série A, Zoologie, 84: 1-76, 1 plate. Paris.
• Griffiths, O.L. & Florens, V.F.B. (2006). A field guide to the non-marine molluscs of the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Rodrigues and Réunion) and the northern dependencies of Mauritius. Bioculture Press: Mauritius. Pp. i–xv, 1–185.
• Fischer-Piette, E. & Vukadinovic, D. (1973). Sur les Mollusques Fluviatiles de Madagascar. Malacologia. 12: 339–378.

External links

• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmia
• Lea, I.; Lea, H. C. (1851). Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East, and now first described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 18: 179-197
• Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890
• Gould, A.A. (1847). Descriptions of the following species of Melania, from the collection of the Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 222-225
• Lamarck, (J.-B. M.) de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp
• Leschke, M. (1912). Mollusken der Hamburger Südsee-Expedition 1908/1909 (Admiralitätsinseln, Bismarckarchipel, Deutsch Neuguinea). Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten. 29, 2. Beiheft: 89-172
• Schepman, M. M. (1918). On a collection of land-, freshwater- and marine Mollusca from northern New Guinea. Zoologische Mededeelingen. 4(1): 1-21
• Glaubrecht M., Brinkmann N. & Pöppe J. (2009). Diversity and disparity ‘down under': Systematics, biogeography and reproductive modes of the ‘marsupial' freshwater Thiaridae (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea) in Australia. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 85(2): 199-275

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