Pila saxea

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]

Pila saxea
Drawing of a shell of Pila saxea (holotype)
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. saxea
Binomial name
Pila saxea (Reeve, 1856)
Synonyms
Ampullaria nux Reeve, 1856 Ampullaria saxea Reeve, 1856 (original combination)

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.