Species details : Brotia (Antimelania) costula Rafinesque, 1833

Accepted scientific name:
Brotia (Antimelania) costula Rafinesque, 1833 (accepted name)
Synonyms:
Brotia corrugata Reeve, 1859 (synonym)
Brotia episcopalis Lea & Lea, 1850 (synonym)
Brotia hainanensis Brot, 1872 (synonym)
Brotia herculea Gould, 1846 (synonym)
Brotia infracostata Mousson, 1848 (synonym)
Brotia jullieni Deshayes in Deshayes & Jullien, 1874 (synonym)
Brotia soloensis Martin, 1905 (synonym)
Brotia subplicata Schepman in Veth, 1880 (synonym)
Brotia sumatrensis Brot, 1874 (synonym)
Brotia sumatrensis Tenison-Woods, 1888 (synonym)
Brotia torquata von dem Busch, 1842 (synonym)
Brotia variabilis Benson, 1835 (synonym)
Brotia zollingeri Brot, 1868 (synonym)
Melania carolinae Gray, 1834 (synonym)
Melania hainesiana Lea, 1856 (synonym)
Melania menkeana Lea, 1842 (synonym)
Melania plicata Lea, 1835 (synonym)
Sermyla perakensis de Morgan, 1885 (synonym)
Common names: -
Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Mollusca CoL
Class Gastropoda CoL
Order Not assigned CoL
Superfamily Cerithioidea CoL
Family Pachychilidae CoL
Genus Brotia CoL
Distribution: Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India (see Kohler & Glaubrecht, 2004).
Lifezones: Freshwater
Additional data: Brandt (1974) treats this in Brotia (Brotia). £Brandt (1974) treats costula as a “rassenkreis” and recognises subspecies, each with synonymies. Those synonyms given by Brandt (1974) and not other authors are here assigned to the subspecies as per Brandt
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Mollusca FW Review, 01-Jan-2005
Source database: MolluscaFW, 2011   90%
Bibliographic citation: Seddon M. & Rowson B. (2025). MolluscaFW: World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca (version 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource:
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:2d8e19ee-c365-11e4-869f-239583ce8323:col20150401