Pila (gastropod)

Pila is a genus of large freshwater snails with an operculum, African and Asian apple snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Pila
A shell of Pila polita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pila
Röding, 1798[1]
Diversity[2]
about 30 species

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Pila include Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia and Indo-Pacific islands.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Pila include:

subgenus Pila

subgenus Turbinicola Annandale & Prashad, 1921[5]

  • Pila aperta (Prashad, 1925)[2]
  • Pila (Turbinicola) saxea (Annandale & Prashad, 1921)[2]

subgenus ?

  • † Pila busserti Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2017[6]
  • † Pila neuberti Harzhauser & Neubauer, 2016[7]

Ecology

Pila species are a host of a trematode Multicotyle purvisi.[8]

Human use

The shells of Pila are used in traditional ethnomedicine for weakness by Saharia people in Rajasthan, India.[9]

Pila ampullacea and Pila pesmei are some of the rice field snail species traditionally eaten in Thailand that have been displaced by the invasive golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata.[10]

References
  1. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 145.
  2. "Pila". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
  3. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
  4. Bouchet, P. (2013). Pila scutata (Mousson, 1848). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=739934 on 2017-11-23
  5. Annandale N. & Prashad B. (1921). Rec. Indian Mus. 22: 9.
  6. Harzhauser, M.; Neubauer, T. A.; Bussert, R.; Eisawi, A. A. (2017). "Ampullariid gastropods from the Palaeogene Hudi Chert Formation (Republic of the Sudan)". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 129: 338–345. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.01.024.
  7. Harzhauser, M.; Neubauer, T. A.; Kadolsky, D.; Pickford, M.; Nordsieck, H. (2016). "Terrestrial and lacustrine gastropods from the Priabonian (upper Eocene) of the Sultanate of Oman". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 90 (1): 63–99. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0277-1. PMC 5448427. PMID 28626264.
  8. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
  9. Mahawar, M. M.; Jaroli, D. P. (2007). "Traditional knowledge on zootherapeutic uses by the Saharia tribe of Rajasthan, India". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 3 (1): 25. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-25. PMC 1892771. PMID 17547781.
  10. Heavy Predation on Freshwater Bryozoans by the Golden Apple Snail, Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck, 1822 (Ampullariidae); The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 6(1): 31-36, May 2006


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