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Brotia
Sign in to saveBrotia is a genus of Southeast Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family Pachychilidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyPachychilidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 242
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Pachychilidae
- Collections
- CAS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, DMNS, ALMNH, NCSM, UF
- Recorded in
- Burma [Union Of Myanmar], Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pachychilidae
- Image
- Brotia pagodula.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Brotia
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- Brotia
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
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- Species
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Brotia is a genus of Southeast Asian freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the taxonomic family Pachychilidae.
The generic name Brotia is apparently in honor of a Swiss malacologist Auguste Louis Brot (1821-1896).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brotia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.