Margarya oxytropoides

Margarya oxytropoides is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Margarya oxytropoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Genus:
Margarya
Species:
M. oxytropoides
Binomial name
Margarya oxytropoides
(Heude, 1889)
Synonyms[1]

Cipangopaludina dianchiensis Zhang, 1990 Margarya melanioides dianchiensis Huang, 2007

Distribution

The distribution of Margarya francheti includes Dian Lake, Lugu Lake, and small lakes around Zhaotong in Yunnan Province, China.[1]

Description

Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[1]

References
  1. Zhang, L. J.; Chen, S. C.; Yang, L. T.; Jin, L.; Köhler, F. (2015). "Systematic revision of the freshwater snail Nevill, 1877 (Mollusca: Viviparidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with description of new taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (4): 760–800. doi:10.1111/zoj.12260.


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