Sermyla riqueti

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

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)

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, Shuh-Sen; Yang, Hsi-Nan; Huang, Da-Ji; Liu, Su-Miao; Huang, Yueh-Han; Chiang, Chung-Ting; Liu, Jin-Wei (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. PMC 4113864. PMID 25026081.



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