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Margarya oxytropoides

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Margarya oxytropoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Margarya
Species:
M. oxytropoides
Binomial name
Margarya oxytropoides
(Heude, 1889)
Synonyms[1]

Cipangopaludina dianchiensis Zhang, 1990 Margarya melanioides dianchiensis Huang, 2007

Margarya oxytropoides is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Distribution

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The distribution of Margarya francheti includes Dian Lake, Lugu Lake, and small lakes around Zhaotong in Yunnan Province, China.[1]

Description

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Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Zhang, L. J.; Chen, S. C.; Yang, L. T.; Jin, L.; Köhler, F. (2015). "Systematic revision of the freshwater snail Nevill, 1877 (Mollusca: Viviparidae) endemic to the ancient lakes of Yunnan, China, with description of new taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (4): 760–800. doi:10.1111/zoj.12260.