New Record of the Melanopsis buccinoidea (Olivier, 1801) from two streams of Mersin (Türkiye) with Evaluation Some Morphometric Parameters

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 321 - 326, 16.04.2025

Mehmet Kocabaş , Filiz Kutluyer Kocabaş

https://doi.org/10.30910/turkjans.1584278

Abstract

In this study, some biometric characteristics of the freshwater snail Melanopsis buccinoidea (Olivier, 1801) were determined in Koca Stream and Bayat Stream (Mersin, Türkiye). Weight (W) (g), shell length (SL) (mm), shell width (SW) (mm), aperture length (AL) and width (AW) (mm) measurements were made on the samples taken from different stations. Morphological relationships were determined by multivariate statistical evaluation. The highest values in terms of shell length and weight were determined to be 16.53±3.67 mm and 0.47±0.23 g, living in Koca Stream. The largest shell length measured in the samples was 21.93 mm and the aperture width was 10.62 mm. The results were analyzed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a versatile statistical technique employed to explore the relationships between variables and account for a significant portion of the dataset. Samples taken from different stations showed a strong relationship between aperture width and spir height.

Keywords

Melanopsis buccinoidea, biometric, Koca Stream, Bayat Stream

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