Brotia armata
Brotia armata is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
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Apertural view of a shell of Brotia armata. Scale bar is 10 mm. | |
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Species: | B. armata |
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Brotia armata (Brandt, 1968)[2] | |
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Brotia morrisonii Brandt, 1974 |
Human use
It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.[4]
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References
- Simonis, J. & Köhler, F. (2012). Brotia armata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T184897A1762843. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T184897A1762843.en. Downloaded on 13 January 2018.
- Brandt R. A. M. (1968). "Descriptions of new non-marine mollusks from Asia". Archiv fir Molluskenkunde 98: 213-289.
- Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2006). "A systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)". Malacologia 48: 159-251.
- Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161130
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