Sermyla riqueti

Sermyla riqueti
Sermyla riqueti shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Sermyla
Species: S. riqueti
Binomial name
Sermyla riqueti
(Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms

Melania riqueti Grateloup, 1840
Melanoides riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)
Thiara riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)

Sermyla riqueti is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.

Ecology

The pollution tolerance value is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).[2]

References

  1. Budha P. B. & Richter K. (2012). "Sermyla riqueti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T166263A1381686. Downloaded on 18 February 2016.
  2. 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.
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