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Brotia herculea

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Brotia herculea
Apertural view of a shell of Brotia herculea including operculum. Scale bar is 10 mm.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Brotia
Species:
B. herculea
Binomial name
Brotia herculea
(Gould, 1846)
Synonyms[1][2][3]

Melania herculea Gould, 1846
Melanoides herculea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Melania balteata Reeve, 1860
Melania gloriosa Anthony, 1865
Melania peguensis Hanley & Theobald, 1876
Melania reevei Brot, 1862
Melania reevei var. imbricata Hanley & Theobald, 1876
Melania reevei var. lanceolata Nevill, 1884
Melania reevei var. soliduscula Nevill, 1884
Melania tourannensis var. beddomeana Nevill, 1885
Melania tourannensis var. compacta Nevill, 1885

Brotia herculea, common name the giant tower cap snail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.

Description

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B. herculea has a taenioglossan radula.[4] Its shell is large and turreted. The presence of axial ribs is highly variable.[5]

Distribution

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This species occurs in Myanmar and Thailand.[2]

Human use

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It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[6] It is considered low-risk for invasiveness.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b Köhler, F.; Simonis, J. (2012). "Brotia herculea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T184819A1754715. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T184819A1754715.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2006). "A systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia 48: 159-251.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Brotia herculea (Gould, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057844 on 2018-09-11
  4. ^ Scheel, Carolin; Gorb, Stanislav N.; Glaubrecht, Matthias; Krings, Wencke (2020-10-21). "Not just scratching the surface: distinct radular motion patterns in Mollusca". Biology Open. 9 (10): bio055699. doi:10.1242/bio.055699. ISSN 2046-6390. PMC 7595699. PMID 32917764.
  5. ^ Köhler, Frank.; Köhler, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias (2006). "A systematic revision of the southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia. 48: 159–251. ISSN 0076-2997.
  6. ^ Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130
  7. ^ Patoka, Jiří; Kopecký, Oldřich; Vrabec, Vladimír; Kalous, Lukáš (2017). "Aquarium molluscs as a case study in risk assessment of incidental freshwater fauna". Biological Invasions. 19 (7): 2039–2046. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1412-6. ISSN 1387-3547. S2CID 254293059.