Filopaludina miveruensis

Filopaludina miveruensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Filopaludina
Species: F. miveruensis
Binomial name
Filopaludina miveruensis
Smith

Filopaludina miveruensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

This species has been reported from Vietnam, but there are doubts about the validity of this species.[1] It may in fact be the African species Bellamya mweruensis.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sri-aroon P., Köhler F. & Richter K. (2012). "Filopaludina miveruensis". In: IUCN 2014. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 June 2014.
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