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Pila turbinis

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Pila turbinis
Pila turbinis shell (holotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pila
Species:
P. turbinis
Binomial name
Pila turbinis
(I. Lea, 1856)
Synonyms
  • Ampullaria dalyi W. T. Blanford, 1903 (junior synonym)
  • Ampullaria turbinis I. Lea, 1856 (original combination)
  • Pachylabra turbinis (I. Lea, 1856)

Pila turbinis is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.[1]

Description

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(Original description in Latin) The shell is turbinate, yellowish-green, and transversely banded. It is rather thick, imperforate, and smooth. The shell contains five very convex whorls. The spire is very depressed, and the sutures are slightly impressed. The aperture is very large and elongated-ovate, appearing either white or yellow, and is banded internally. The lip is acute, and the columella is very incurved and thickened.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in Thailand.

References

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  1. ^ Pila turbinis(I. Lea, 1856). 4 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Lea, I. (1856). "Description of thirteen new species of exotic Peristomata". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8 (3): 110. Retrieved 4 June 2025. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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