Tylomelania baskasti

Tylomelania baskasti
	An apertural view of a shell of a holotype of Tylomelania baskasti.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Tylomelania
Species:	T. baskasti
Binomial name
	Tylomelania baskasti; von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2008

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

The specific name baskasti is in honor of the German author and journalist Bas Kast, who supported the malacological research.^[1]

Distribution edit

This species occurs in the Malili lake system, in Sulawesi, Indonesia.^[1] Its type locality is Larona River.^[1]

An abapertual view of a holotype of Tylomelania baskasti.

Newly hatched snails of Tylomelania baskasti have a shell height of 5.7-8.4 mm.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2008). "Three new species of the freshwater snail genus Tylomelania (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system, Sulawesi, Indonesia". Zootaxa 1852: 37-49. PDF.

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