Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774)
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https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v124/i3/2024/172781 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387CC-A432-FFE0-87E2-1086FA45FBF3 |
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Felipe |
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Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) |
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2. Mieniplotia scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774) View in CoL
1774. Buccinum scabrum Mueller, Hisl. Yermo Terr. Fluv. , 2: 136.
1973. Thiara (Thiara) scabra : Pace, Malac. Review Suppl., 1: 52, pI. 12, figs, L 2, pI.13.
2015. Mieniplotia scabra : Bouchet & Philippe, molluscabase. org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828967
Material examined: ZSI/IV/ APRC /M-437; Dibru River , Tenjum village . Pasighat; 18.xi.2021 (1 ex); Figure 2 View Figure 2 . Coordinates: 27.993043 N; 95.341832 E, 128m. GoogleMaps
Distribution: Native: Bangladesh; India (West Bengal, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Pondicherry, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar); Indonesia (Jawa); Japan; Kenya; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia); Myanmar ( Myanmar (mainland)); Nepal; Oman; Philippines; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Yemen; Yemen ( South Yemen). Introduced: Fiji; Guam; Micronesia, Federated States of; New Caledonia; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Solomon Islands; United States; Vanuatu, Madagascar; United Arab, Comoros; Mauritius; Réunion.
Diagnostic character: Shell elongated turreted, pale brown; whorls regularly increasing in size, sutures distinct, spire as high as body whorl, whorls often shouldered above and rounded below the row of spines, shell surface with rough spiral striations, and sculptured with characteristic vertical ribs bearing conspicuous spines directed diagonally outward, on the body whorl near the umbilical region striations form strong ridges.
IUCN Status: Least Concern (LC)
Remarks: The species was popularly known as Thiara scabra to the Malacologist till recent times. Prof. Bouchet Philippe updated the genus of the species from Thiara Röding, 1798 to Mieniplotia Low & Tan, 2014 (molluscabase.org). A single fresh and empty whole shell was collected from the Dibru River, Pashighat, East Siang district and reported for the first time from the state. Type locality contained in India ( Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu).
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