Tylomelania kruimeli

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image_caption = Apertural view of the shell of Tylomelania kruimeli

| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rintelen, T. |author2=Köhler, F. |date=2019 |title=Tylomelania kruimeli |volume=2019 |page=e.T189599A109685734 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T189599A109685734.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Tylomelania

| species = kruimeli

| authority = von Rintelen & Glaubrecht, 2003von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2003). "New discoveries in old lakes: three new species of Tylomelania Sarasin & Sarasin, 1897 (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system on Sulawesi, Indonesia". Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(1): 3-17. {{doi|10.1093/mollus/69.1.3}}

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Tylomelania kruimeli is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

The specific name kruimeli is in honor of Dutch malacologist Jan Herman Kruimel (1884-1916).

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Lake Mahalona, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The type locality is north-eastern corner of the Lake Mahalona.

Description

The shape of the shell is conical. The shell has 4-9 whorls.

The width of the shell is 7.5-29.3 mm. The height of the shell is 13.9-69.3 mm.

Ecology

This lacustrine species lives on the hard substrate.

There are developing 3-14 embryos develop in a brood pouch. Females gave birth to 2-14 juveniles.von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2005). "Anatomy of an adaptive radiation: a unique reproductive strategy in the endemic freshwater gastropod Tylomelania (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) on Sulawesi, Indonesia and its biogeographical implications." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 85: 513–542. {{doi|10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00515.x}}. The height of the shell of juveniles at birth is 6.5-11.0 mm.

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