Tricula montana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Rissooidea
Family:
Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:
Triculinae
Tribe:
Triculuni
Genus:
Tricula
Species:
T. montana
Binomial name
Tricula montana
Benson, 1843

Tricula montana is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Tricula montana is the type species of the genus Tricula.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Tricula montana includes Assam, Uttarakhand in India, and Nepal.[1]

Ecology

This freshwater snail lives in springs, streams and small rivers.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Budha, P.B. (2010). "Tricula montana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T22134A9361677. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T22134A9361677.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Davis G. M., Subba Rao N. V. & Hoagland K. E. (1986). "In Search of Tricula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia): Tricula Defined, and a New Genus Described". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 138(2): 426-442. JSTOR. page 436.


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