Brotia sumatrensis
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| Brotia sumatrensis | |
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| Shell of Brotia sumatrensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Pachychilidae |
| Genus: | Brotia |
| Species: | B. sumatrensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Brotia sumatrensis (Brot, 1875) | |
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Brotia sumatrensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Previously frequently synonymized with Brotia costula, biological systematics was able to molecularly distinguish the two.[2]