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Pila saxea

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Pila saxea
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Pila saxea, common name the stony ampullaria, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. [1]

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Description

(Original description) The shell is oblong-ovate and rather solid, featuring a narrow, covered umbilicus. The spire is rather obtuse. The whorls are a little depressed around the upper part, obsoletely angled, and then rounded. The shell appears olive. The aperture is pyriformly oblong, and the columellar lip is thinly reflected. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in India and the Philippines.

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