Theodoxus altenai explained

Theodoxus altenai is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Distribution

The distribution of this species includes Antalya Province in southern Turkey.

The type locality is a lake near Döşemealti in Antalya Province, Turkey.

Description

The shell is exceptionally thin, light horny yellowish, translucent and shiny. The Whorls are flat and very rapidly increasing, with a brown quadrangular color pattern. The operculum is reddish, without an apophysis.

The width of the shell is 9.0-10.0 mm. The height of the shell is 6.0 - 7.0 mm.

Ecology

This snail lives in lakes.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[1]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4291 "Species summary for Theodoxus altenai"