Margarya oxytropoides is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
| Margarya oxytropoides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Margarya |
| Species: | M. oxytropoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Margarya oxytropoides (Heude, 1889)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cipangopaludina dianchiensis Zhang, 1990 Margarya melanioides dianchiensis Huang, 2007 | |
Distribution
editThe distribution of Margarya francheti includes Dian Lake, Lugu Lake, and small lakes around Zhaotong in Yunnan Province, China.[1]
Description
editZhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[1]
References
edit- ^ 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.
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