Taia naticoides

Taia naticoides is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Taia naticoides
Taia naticoides shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Viviparoidea
Family:
Viviparidae
Subfamily:
Bellamyinae
Genus:
Taia
Species:
T. naticoides
Binomial name
Taia naticoides
(Theobald, 1865)

Human use

It is used as a freshwater aquarium pet.[1]

References
  1. Patoka, J., Kopecký, O., Vrabec, V., & Kalous, L. (2017). "Aquarium molluscs as a case study in risk assessment of incidental freshwater fauna". Biological Invasions 19(7): 2039-2046. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1412-6.


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