Brotia sumatrensis | |
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Shell of Brotia sumatrensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Pachychilidae |
Genus: | Brotia |
Species: | B. sumatrensis
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Binomial name | |
Brotia sumatrensis (
Brot, 1875)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Brotia sumatrensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Previously frequently synonymized with Brotia costula, biological systematics was able to molecularly distinguish the two. [2]