Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis
Species of gastropod
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Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is a species of large operculate freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
| Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis | |
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| Shell of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Tchangmargarya |
| Species: | T. yangtsunghaiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis (Tchang & Tsi, 1949) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Margarya yangtsunghaiensis Tchang & Tsi, 1949 | |
This species used to be assigned to Margarya, and is the type species of Tchangmargarya.[2]
Distribution
The distribution of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis includes Yangzong Lake in Yunnan Province, China.[1][2]
Description
The diploid chromosome number of Tchangmargarya yangtsunghaiensis is 2n=24.[3] Zhang et al. (2015) provided details about the shell and about the radula.[2]
