Species Profile
Pila globosa
Apple snail
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Pila globosa lives in ponds and slow rivers.
It feeds on aquatic plants.
It is important in freshwater ecosystems.
Size & Structure
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Large globose shell
02
Olive-brown colour
03
Operculum present
04
Muscular creeping foot
Pila globosa — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral (secondarily asymmetrical)
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Ganglionic
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, euryhaline
- Circulatory type
- Open circulation, single
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial and pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Open
- Skeleton structure
- Exoskeleton (spiral shell)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Grazes aquatic plants
Nutrient recycling
Prey for fishes
Economic Importance
Used as food
Zoology specimen
Ecological importance