Critically Endangered
Tylomelania zeamais
Tylomelania zeamais
Tylomelania zeamais is a gastropod in the family Pachychilidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The width of the shell is 13 mm. The height of the shell is 29 mm.
The width of the aperture is 7.5 mm.
Range and habitat
This species occurs in Malili lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. It occur in the single lake and the type locality is the Lake Matano.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
Tylomelania zeamais is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Tylomelania zeamais, Wikidata item Q7860256. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
