Sermyla riquetii is a species of brackish water and freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.[2] (Note, in many works the name is spelt "riqueti")

Sermyla riquetii
Sermyla riquetii shells
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Thiaridae
Genus: Sermyla
Species:
S. riquetii
Binomial name
Sermyla riquetii
(Grateloup, 1840)
Synonyms
  • Melania harpula Dunker, 1844 (junior synonym)
  • Melania herklotsi K. Martin, 1879 (junior subjective synonym)
  • Melania mitra Dunker, 1844
  • Melania riquetii Grateloup, 1840 (in legends as "riqueti")
  • Melania sculpta Souleyet, 1852
  • Melania semicostata Philippi, 1847 (invalid: junior homonym of Melania semicostata Conrad, 1835)
  • Melania tornatella I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851 (junior synonym)
  • Melanoides riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)
  • Sermyla kowloonensis S.-F. Chen, 1943 (junior synonym)
  • Sermyla tornatella (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
  • Thiara riqueti (Grateloup, 1840)

Ecology

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The pollution tolerance value is 3 (on scale 0–10; 0 is the best water quality, 10 is the worst water quality).[3]

References

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  1. ^ Budha P. B. & Richter K. (2012). "Sermyla riqueti". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T166263A1381686. Downloaded on 18 February 2016.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Sermyla riquetii (Grateloup, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=757054 on 2022-05-24
  3. ^ Young, Shuh-Sen; Yang, Hsi-Nan; Huang, Da-Ji; Liu, Su-Miao; Huang, Yueh-Han; Chiang, Chung-Ting; Liu, Jin-Wei (2014). "Using Benthic Macroinvertebrate and Fish Communities as Bioindicators of the Tanshui River Basin Around the Greater Taipei Area — Multivariate Analysis of Spatial Variation Related to Levels of Water Pollution". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 11 (7): 7116–7143. doi:10.3390/ijerph110707116. PMC 4113864. PMID 25026081.
  • Martin, K. (1879-1880). Die Tertiärschichten auf Java, nach den Entdeckungen von Fr. Junghuhn. Leiden: Brill.
  • Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1–423.
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