User:Snaildoc/Brotia
| Snaildoc/Brotia Temporal range: Miocene - recent
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| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Brotia H. Adams, 1866[2]
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Antimelania P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892[3] | |
Brotia is a genus of South-east Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the in taxonomic family Pachychilidae.[4]
Distribution
Species of Brotia occur in freshwater habitats of Southeast Asia, ranging from Northern India in the west through to Sumatra in the east. This range includes India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia (Sumatra and Borneo only).
Biology
Species are found predominantly in fast flowing, well oxygenated rivers, occasionally also in lakes. They are gonochoristic, and viviparous, retaining developing eggs and youngs in special brood pouch.
List of species
- Brotia annamita Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009
- Brotia armata (Brandt, 1874)
- Brotia assamensis (Nevill, 1885)
- Brotia baccata (Gould, 1847)
- Brotia binodosa (Blanford, 1903)
- Brotia boenana (Brot, 1881)
- Brotia borneensis (Schepman, 1896)
- Brotia citrina (Brot, 1861)
- Brotia costula (Rafinesque, 1833)
- Brotia dautzenbergiana Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2006
- Brotia episcopalis (I. Lea & H.C. Lea, 1851
- Brotia godwini (Brot, 1875)
- Brotia herculea (Gould, 1846)
- Brotia hoabinhensis Köhler, Holford, Do & Ho, 2009
- Brotia indragirica (von Martens, 1900)
- Brotia insolita (Brot, 1868)
- Brotia iravadica (Blanford, 1869)
- Brotia jullieni (Deshayes, 1874)
- Brotia laodelectata Köhler, 2008
- Brotia manningi Brandt, 1968
- Brotia mariae Köhler, 2008
- Brotia microsculpta Brandt, 1968
- Brotia pagodula (Gould, 1847)
- Brotia paludiformis (Solem, 1966)
- Brotia peninsularis (Brandt, 1974)
- Brotia persculpta (Ehrmann, 1922)
- Brotia praetermissa Köhler & Glaubrecht, 2002
- Brotia pseudoasperata Brandt, 1968
- Brotia pseudosulcospira (Brandt, 1968)
- Brotia siamensis (Brot, 1886)
- Brotia solemiana (Brandt, 1968)
- Brotia spinata (GodwinAusten, 1872)
- Brotia subgloriosa (Brandt, 1968)
- Brotia sumatrensis (Brot, 1875)
- Brotia torquata (von dem Busch, 1842)
- Brotia verbecki (Brot, 1886)
- Brotia wykoffi (Brandt, 1974)
- Brotia yunnanensis Köhler, Du & Yang, 2010
Sources
- ^ Fischer P. & Crosse H. (1892). "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale". Recherches zoologiques, Partie 7, 2(13): 117-392.
- ^ Description of a new genus and a new species of mollusks. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1866: 150-151.
- ^ Fischer P. & Crosse H. (1892). "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale". Recherches zoologiques, Partie 7, 2(13): 117-392.
- ^ Köhler, F. & Glaubrecht, M. (2006). "A systematic revision of the Southeast Asian freshwater gastropod Brotia (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)." Malacologia 48: 159-251.