Pila turbinis

Pila turbinis is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.^[1]

Pila turbinis
Pila turbinis shell (holotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. turbinis
Binomial name
Pila turbinis (I. Lea, 1856)
Synonyms
Ampullaria dalyi W. T. Blanford, 1903 (junior synonym) Ampullaria turbinis I. Lea, 1856 (original combination) Pachylabra turbinis (I. Lea, 1856)

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is turbinate, yellowish-green, and transversely banded. It is rather thick, imperforate, and smooth. The shell contains five very convex whorls. The spire is very depressed, and the sutures are slightly impressed. The aperture is very large and elongated-ovate, appearing either white or yellow, and is banded internally. The lip is acute, and the columella is very incurved and thickened.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Thailand.