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

Tylomelania helmuti
An apertural view of a shell of Tylomelania helmuti.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Tylomelania
Species:
T. helmuti
Binomial name
Tylomelania helmuti
von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2003[1]

The specific name helmuti is in honor of Helmut Glaubrecht, father of the second author and supporter of the malacological research.[1][2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Lake Towuti drainage, in Sulawesi, Indonesia.[1] The type locality is the stream-crossing on the road from Wawondula to Timampu.[1]

Description

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The shell has always some whorls corroded with 3-8 whorls.[1]

The width of the shell is up to 8.0–16.3 mm.[1] The height of the shell is up to 15.8–34.6 mm.[1] The width of the aperture is 4.0–8.5 mm.[1] The height of the aperture is 6.2–13.2 mm.[1]

Ecology

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This species lives in shallow streams and marshes.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2003). "New discoveries in old lakes: three new species of Tylomelania Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897 (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system on Sulawesi, Indonesia". Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(1): 3-17. doi:10.1093/mollus/69.1.3
  2. ^ "Glaubrecht, Curriculum Vitae, Persönliche Daten" .accessed 6 July 2014.