Semisulcospira decipiens

Semisulcospira decipiens is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Semisulcospira decipiens
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Semisulcospiridae
Genus:	Semisulcospira
Species:	S. decipiens
Binomial name
Semisulcospira decipiens (Westerlund, 1883)[2]
Synonyms
Melania niponica var. decipiens Westerlund, 1883

Taxonomy

Type specimen were collected during the Vega Expedition led by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878–1880.^[2] This species was originally described under the name Melania niponica var. decipiens by Swedish malacologist Carl Agardh Westerlund in 1883.^[2]

Semisulcospira decipiens belong to the Semisulcospira niponica species group.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in Lake Biwa and in the Yodo River, Japan.^[1]

The type locality is Lake Biwa.^[2]