Brotia sumatrensis

Brotia sumatrensis
	Shell of Brotia sumatrensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Brotia
Species:	B. sumatrensis
Binomial name
	Brotia sumatrensis; (Brot, 1875)
Synonyms[1]
	Melania boeana Brot, 1881 (junior synonym); Melania sumatrensis Brot, 1875 (original combination);

Brotia sumatrensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Previously frequently synonymized with Brotia costula, biological systematics was able to molecularly distinguish the two.[2]

Distribution

"WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Brotia sumatrensis (Brot, 1875)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
Köhler, Frank.; Köhler, Frank; Glaubrecht, Matthias (2006). "A systematic revision of the southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia. 48: 159–251. ISSN 0076-2997.
Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.

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