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A collection of shells of Filopaludina sumatrensis (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Viviparoidea
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Filopaludina
Species:	F. sumatrensis
Binomial name
*Filopaludina sumatrensis* (Dunker, 1852)
Synonyms
Filopaludina (Filopaludina) sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation Filopaludina (Filopaludina) sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation Filopaludina sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) · accepted, alternate representation Paludina sumatrensis Dunker, 1852

Filopaludina sumatrensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.

Subspecies

Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis Brandt, 1974
Filopaludina sumatrensis polygramma (Martens, 1860)
Filopaludina sumatrensis speciosa (Deshayes, 1876)
Filopaludina sumatrensis sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) represented as Filopaludina sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852) (alternate representation)

Distribution

This species is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Description

The width of the shell is 21 mm. The height of the shell is 32 mm.

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