- Source: Pila ampullacea
Pila ampullacea, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Distribution
Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia
Description
As food
Pila ampullacea, together with Pila pesmei, are indigenous rice field snail species traditionally eaten in Thailand that have been displaced by the invasive golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata.
In Indonesia, it is famous as keong sawah or tutut (from Sundanese: ᮒᮥᮒᮥᮒ᮪, romanized: Tutut) as traditional cuisine which is often boiled or grilled as satay.
References
External links
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition, vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae]
Media related to Pila ampullacea at Wikimedia Commons
Applesnail.net info
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Keong sawah
- Keong Gondang
- Keong
- Sungai Kampar Kanan
- Pila ampullacea
- Pila (gastropod)
- Pomacea canaliculata
- Wildlife of Ratanakiri
- List of non-marine molluscs of Indonesia
- Kampar Kanan River
- List of non-marine molluscs of Vietnam
- List of molluscs of Botswana
- List of non-marine molluscs of Malaysia
- List of non-marine molluscs of Thailand
