Sinotaia quadrata

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

Sinotaia quadrata
Temporal range: Upper Pleistocene[1]-recent

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Subfamily:
Bellamyinae
Genus:
Sinotaia
Species:
S. quadrata
Binomial name
Sinotaia quadrata
(Benson, 1842)
Synonyms[2]

Bellamya quadrata (Benson, 1842)
Filopaludina quadrata (Benson, 1842)
Paludina quadrata Reeve, 1862
Vivipara quadrata Kobelt, 1909
Bithynia viviparoides Hsu, 1936

Subspecies

Subspecies within this species include:

  • Sinotaia quadrata quadrata
  • Sinotaia quadrata histrica (Gould, 1859)[3] or as a separate species Sinotaia histrica[4]
  • Viviparus quadratus disparis
  • Viviparus quadratus grahami Chen, 1945[5]

Distribution

This species is found in

This species is also known from Upper Pleistocene of China.[1]

Ecology

Habitat

The habitat of Sinotaia quadrata are rivers and lakes.[9]

The pollution tolerance value is 6 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).[10]

Feeding habits

Sinotaia quadrata feeds on epiphytic algae.[9]

Sinotaia quadrata histrica snails predate also on eggs of bluegill Lepomis macrochirus.[3]

Life cycle

Sinotaia quadrata has strong fecundity.[9]

Parasites

Parasites of Sinotaia quadrata (also of Bellamya quadrata lapillorum (Heude)) include trematode Aspidogaster conchicola.[11]

Human use

Sinotaia quadrata is common animal food used in aquaculture to feed fish black carp[12] in China.[9]

This species is also eaten by humans. In Isan, Thailand they are collected by hand or with a handnet from canals, swamps, ponds and flooded rice paddy fields during the rainy season. During the dry season, snails live under dried mud. Collectors use a spade to scrape the ground to find and catch them. Generally they are collected by both men and women.[6] The snails are then cleaned and cooked in a curry. They are also parboiled in salted water and eat together with green papaya salad.[6]

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from reference.[6]

  1. Teng-Chien Yen. 1943. Review and summary of Tertiary and Quaternary non-marine mollusks of China.. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Vol. XCV, 1943). 267-309. Page 284.
  2. Köhler F. & Richter K. (2012). "Sinotaia quadrata". In: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T166310A1129870. Downloaded on 23 November 2015.
  3. (in Japanese) Nakao H., Kawabata T., Fujita K., Nakai K. & Sawada H. (2006). "Predation on bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) broods by native snails. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 53(2): 167–173. PDF.
  4. Xie, L.; Yokoyama, A.; Nakamura, K.; Park, H. (2007). "Accumulation of microcystins in various organs of the freshwater snail Sinotaia histrica and three fishes in a temperate lake, the eutrophic Lake Suwa, Japan". Toxicon. 49 (5): 646–652. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.11.004. PMID 17187838.
  5. Sui-Fong Chen. (1945). "Two new species, one new subspecies and one new name of Chinese Viviparidae". The Nautilus 59(2): 63-66. page 65, plate 7.
  6. Setalaphruk, C.; Price, L. L. (2007). "Children's traditional ecological knowledge of wild food resources: a case study in a rural village in Northeast Thailand". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 3 (1): 33. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-33. PMC 2100045. PMID 17937791.
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  8. Capítulo, Alberto Rodrigues; Altieri, Paula; Ocon, Carolina; Rumi, Alejandra; Paz, Estefanía L.; Ferreira, Ana Clara; Capítulo, Alberto Rodrigues; Altieri, Paula; Ocon, Carolina (June 2017). "Ecology of the non-native snail Sinotaia cf quadrata (Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae). A study in a lowland stream of South America with different water qualities". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 89 (2): 1059–1072. doi:10.1590/0001-3765201720160624. ISSN 0001-3765. PMID 28640353.
  9. Shan Jian 1985.Integrated fish farming in China. Training manual. Chapter III Pond fertilization and fish feeds. Network of Agriculture centres in Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. 371 pp.
  10. 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. PMC 4113864. PMID 25026081.
  11. Alevs, Philippe V.; Vieira, Fabiano M.; Santos, Cláudia P.; Scholz, Tomáš; Luque, José L. (2015-02-12). "A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World". Zootaxa. 3918 (3): 339–96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25781098.
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