Stenomelania torulosa

Stenomelania torulosa is a species of a freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Stenomelania torulosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Thiaridae
Genus:
Stenomelania
Species:
S. torulosa
Binomial name
Stenomelania torulosa
Synonyms[2]

Bulimus torulosus Bruguière, 1789
Thiara torulosa (Bruguière, 1789)

Distribution

India

Ecology

The pollution tolerance value is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).[3]

References
  1. Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier, Paris, 3 pp. + j-xviij pp. + 757 pp., page 332.
  2. "Species summary for Stenomelania torulosa". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
  3. Young S.-S., Yang H.-N., Huang D.-J., Liu S.-M., Huang Y.-H., Chiang C.-T. & Liu, J.-W. (2014). "Using Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities as Bioindicators of the Tanshui River Basin Around the Greater Taipei Area — Multivariate Analysis of Spatial Variation Related to Levels of Water Pollution". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 11(7): 7116–7143. doi:10.3390/ijerph110707116.
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