page_title: Tulotoma
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Tulotoma / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Tulotoma magnifica on a human hand.
context_page_description: Tulotoma magnifica, common name the Alabama live-bearing snail or tulotoma, is a species of large freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
  Tulotoma is a monotypic genus, in other words, this is the only species in the genus.
  This species was once widespread in the Coosa River-Alabama River system in Alabama, USA. It is now an endangered species.
context_section_description: The shell of this species is large, solid, thick and imperforate. The shape of the shell is obtusely conic. The spire is elevated. The whorls are flattened, nodulous and carinated. The peristome is thin and continuous.
  The shell can grow fairly large, to more than 25 mm in height. 
  The operculum is concentric, subtriangular, with the inner margin reflected and forming an elevated marginal fold.
  Animal with a moderate foot, not produced beyond the snout. The snout is small. Radula is multicuspid.
caption: Abapertural view of another individual
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