Anularya mansuyi

Anularya mansuyi is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

Anularya mansuyi
Apertural view of the shell of Anularya mansuyi. Scale bar is 1 cm.
Abapertural view of the shell of Anularya mansuyi. Scale bar is 1 cm.
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Anularya
Species:	A. mansuyi
Binomial name
Anularya mansuyi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905[2]
Synonyms[1]
Margarya melanioides var. Mansuyi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1905

Distribution

The distribution of Anularya mansuyi includes Xingyun Lake and Qilu Lake in Yunnan Province, China.^[3]

The former distribution of this species also included Yilong Lake, Dian Lake and Datunhai Lake (Datun Lake).^[3]

Description

Shu et al. (2010) provided details about the shell and about the radula.^[4]

References

1. Jiang, Y.; Di, L.; Aldridge, D.; McIvor, A. (2009). "Margarya mansuyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T166311A6198321. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T166311A6198321.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Dautzenberg P. & Fischer H. (1905). "Liste de mollusques récoltéspar M. Mansuy en Indo-Chine et description d'espècesnouvelles." Journal de Conchyliologie 53: 343-471. page 423-424, figs 2-4.
3. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009 update. Mollusc Facts" Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. 5 pp., accessed 14 September 2010.
4. Shu F., Köhler F. & Wang H. (2010). "On the shell and radular morphology of two endangered species of the genus Margarya Nevill, 1877 (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) from lakes of the Yunnan Plateau, Southwest China." Molluscan Research 30(1): 17-24.