Jagora asperata

Jagora asperata
Jagora asperata
Apertural view of a shell of Jagora asperata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Jagora
Species: J. asperata
Binomial name
Jagora asperata
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]

Melania asperata Lamarck, 1822

Jagora asperata is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Jagora asperata is the type species of the genus Jagora.[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in:

  • The Philippines[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Köhler F. & Glaubrecht M. (2003). "Morphology, reproductive biology and molecular genetics of ovoviviparous freshwater gastropods (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from the Philippines, with description of the new genus Jagora". Zoologica Scripta 32(1): 35-59. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.2003.00100.x.
  2. ^ Köhler F. & Dames C. (2009). "Phylogeny and systematics of the Pachychilidae of mainland Southeast Asia – novel insights from morphology and mitochondrial DNA (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 679-699. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00541.x.

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