Theodoxus pallasi

Theodoxus pallasi
Theodoxus pallasi
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Neritimorpha
Order:	Cycloneritida
Family:	Neritidae
Genus:	Theodoxus
Species:	T. pallasi
Binomial name
Theodoxus pallasi Lindholm, 1924[2]
Synonyms[4]
Neritina liturata Eichwald, 1838[3] Theodoxus lituratus (Eichwald, 1838)

Theodoxus pallasi is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.

Description

Coloration, radula and operculum of Theodoxus pallasi is similar to Theodoxus schultzii.^[4]

Distribution

The distribution of is Ponto-Caspian.^[4]

This species occurs in:

• Caspian Sea
• Armenia^[1]
• Kazakhstan^[1]
• South Russia^[1]
• Uzbekistan^[1]
• It was recorded from Kerman Province and Mazandaran Province in Iran (as Theodoxus lituratus).^[5]

Predators

Predators of Theodoxus pallasi include:

• dunlin Calidris alpina^[6]

References

1. Van Damme D. & Kebapçı U. (2014). "Theodoxus pallasi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version e.T165355A42421481. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 7 November 2015.
2. (in Russian) Lindholm W. A. (1924). K nomenklature nektovykh kaspijskikh gastropod. Russkij Gidrobiologicheskij Zhurnal (Русский гидробиологический журнал) 3: 32-34. Saratov.
3. Eichwald E. (1841). "Faunæ Caspii Maris primitiæ". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 1838: 125-174. page 156.
4. Zettler M. L. (2007). "A redescription of Theodoxus schultzii (Grimm, 1877), an endemic neritid gastropod of the Caspian Sea". Journal of Conchology 39(3): 245-251.
5. Glöer P. & Pešić V. (2012). "The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species". ZooKeys 219: 11-61, doi:10.3897/zookeys.219.3406.
6. (in German) Ehlert W. (1964). "Zur Ökologie und Biologie der Ernährung einiger Limikolen-Arten". Journal für Ornithologie 105(1): 1-53. doi:10.1007/BF01671089.