Pila letourneuxi

Cowie, Robert H., 2015, The recent apple snails of Africa and Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Afropomus, Forbesopomus, Lanistes, Pila, Saulea): a nomenclatural and type catalogue. The apple snails of the Americas: addenda and corrigenda, Zootaxa 3940 (1), pp. 1-92 : 20

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3940.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B5D45D1B-4B52-4F0B-8AF6-B587F8857475
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5173292
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FFE632-0A16-F563-FF68-CD2AA946FDAD
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pila letourneuxi
status

Treatment

letourneuxi View in CoL

Meladomus Letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879: 41 View in CoL . Type material — syntype: MHNG-INVE- 111668 (1 spm.). Type locality —“les bords du Nil, près de Damiette” [the banks of the Nile, near Damietta]. Distribution —Nile Delta, Egypt.

Remarks. Only known from the original description and the more detailed description and illustration of Berthier (1885: 101, pl. 6, fig. 4), who gave an additional location, “Mansourah”, in the Nile Delta. Kobelt (1911: 22) mistakenly reported the locality as that of Ampullaria letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879 (listed under Pila herein), which was described in the same publication as Meladomus letourneuxi Bourguignat, 1879 . Valid species, teste G.B. Sowerby III (1916: 67) and Pilsbry & Bequaert (1927: 187).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Architaenioglossa
Family	Ampullariidae
Genus	Pila