Thiara (Thiara) scabra (Müller, 1774)

Sajan, S. K., Tripathy, Basudev & Biswas, Tulika, 2018, Species inventory of land and freshwater Molluscs from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (2), pp. 141-155 : 147-148

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i2/2018/122574

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scientific name

Thiara (Thiara) scabra (Müller, 1774)
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Thiara (Thiara) scabra (Müller, 1774) View in CoL [ Plate 3 View Plate 3 ; Figure R]

Material examined: Ethipothala, Temple side shallow river water camp, Nalgonda (5 ex.), Date: 02.ix.2016, Coll: Dr, Varadaraju and Party, Reg.No: M29445/7; Ethipothala lake falls (1 ex.), Date: 01.ix.2016, Coll: Dr Varadaraju & Party, Reg. No: M29448/7

Shell characters: Shell rather short and broad, whorls slightly flattened above and rounded below, regularly increasing in size; rows of spines present on the whorls; spiral striae on the shell surface strong near umbilical region. Prefers slow moving water but occurs in slow or fast moving water as well as stagnant water.

Known distribution range: Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal

IUCN status: This taxon has not yet been assessed by the IUCN Red List.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Thiaridae

Genus

Thiara

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