Pila nevilliana

Pila nevilliana, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. ^[1]

Pila nevilliana
Shell of Pila nevilliana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. nevilliana
Binomial name
Pila nevilliana (Annandale & Prashad, 1921)
Synonyms[1]
Pachylabra nevilliana Annandale & Prashad, 1921 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 35 mm, its diameter 28.5 mm.

(Original description) The species is considerably larger, stouter and more globose than Pila saxea (Reeve, 1856), the spire is more swollen, the body whorl more transverse, the aperture broader above, the suture more oblique and the sculpture of the shell coarser and less regular. The external colour is deep chestnut, with which the interior is also tinged. The peristome is white. The scar of the operculum is relatively smaller and its central ridge broader and flatter.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in India.