- Animals
- ›Molluscs
- ›Gastropods
- ›Caenogastropods
- ›Apple Snails, River Snails, and Allies
- ›Ampullarioidea
- ›Apple Snails
- ›Ampullariinae
- ›Pila
Pila africana
Pila africana, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails....
From the article Pila africana on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The height of the shell varies between 35 and 40 millimetres (1.4 and 1.6 in), its diameter between 32 and 38 millimetres (1.3 and 1.5 in). (Original description in Latin) The shell is globose and perforate, appearing chestnut-brown or blackish, and shows very fine spiral striations under a lens. It may have no bands, or they might be obsolete. The spire is short, eroded, and abraded. It comprises four convex whorls, separated by a deep suture. The body whorl is inflated and slightly attenuated at the base. The aperture is ovate-elliptical, occupying three-quarters of the shell's length, slightly broader below, and rounded at the base, with more than half of the lower part of the columellar margin being free and yellowish.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pila africana in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 109511.