Thiara cancellata is a species of freshwater snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Thiara cancellata Röding, 1798. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1304942 on 2022-09-27
Description The length of the shell attains 23.7 mm.
Distribution This marine species occurs off the Philippines
Human use It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.Ng, T. H., Tan, S. K., Wong, W. H., Meier, R., Chan, S. Y., Tan, H. H., & Yeo, D. C. (2016). "Molluscs for sale: assessment of freshwater gastropods and bivalves in the ornamental pet trade". PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161130.
References
Swainson, W. (1824). Description of two new and remarkable freshwater shells, Melania setosa and Unio gigas. The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, 17(33): 13-17 Starmühlner, F. (1976). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süßwasser-Gastropoden pazifischer Inseln. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Indopazifik- Expedition des 1. Zoologischen Institutes der. Universität Wien. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien. 80: 473-656. Benthem Jutting, W. S. S. van. (1958). Non-marine Mollusca of the island of Misool. Nova Guinea: A Journal of Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Geology and Palaeontology of the Papuan Region. 9 (1): 293–338.
External links
Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp