Stenomelania torulosa

Species of gastropod

Stenomelania torulosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Stenomelania
Species:	S. torulosa
Binomial name
*Stenomelania torulosa* (Bruguière, 1789)^[1]
Synonyms^[2]
Bulimus torulosus Bruguière, 1789 Melania aculeus I. Lea, 1834 (junior synonym) Melania confusa Dohrn, 1858 (junior synonym) Melania porcata Jonas, 1844 (junior synonym) Melania semicancellata von dem Busch, 1844 (junior synonym) Melania tirouri Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 Melanoides torulosus (Bruguière, 1789) Thiara torulosa (Bruguière, 1789)

Stenomelania torulosa is a species of a freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Distribution

India

The pollution tolerance value is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).^[3]

^ Bruguière J. G. (1792). Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers. Tome premier, Paris, 3 pp. + j-xviij pp. + 757 pp., page 332.
^ "Species summary for Stenomelania torulosa". AnimalBase, last modified 26 May 2013, accessed 13 January 2016.
^ 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.

Philippi, R. A. (1842-1850). Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe meherer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel, T. Fischer
Lea I. (1834). Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23-119, pls 1-19
Jonas, J. H. (1844). Beschreibung neuer Melanien. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 1: 49-52
Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie
Dohrn, H. (1858). Descriptions of new species of land and freshwater shells collected in Ceylon, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 26(1): 133-135