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Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni | |
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Genus: | Paramelania
E. A. Smith, 1881
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2 described species, possibly more species |
Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae. [3]
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. [2]
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more: [2]
The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) [1] reads as follows:
Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate, longitudinally ribbed and transversely lirate, covered with a thin epidermis. Aperture ovate, entire, indistinctly effuse at the base. Last whorl sometimes slightly prolonged inferiorly. Peristome thick, margins joined by a callosity. Operculum like that of Tiphobia.
This article incorporates public domain text from the references [1]
Paramelania | |
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Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
(unranked): | |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | |
Subfamily: | |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Paramelania
E. A. Smith, 1881
[1]
|
Diversity [2] | |
2 described species, possibly more species |
Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae. [3]
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. [2]
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more: [2]
The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) [1] reads as follows:
Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate, longitudinally ribbed and transversely lirate, covered with a thin epidermis. Aperture ovate, entire, indistinctly effuse at the base. Last whorl sometimes slightly prolonged inferiorly. Peristome thick, margins joined by a callosity. Operculum like that of Tiphobia.
This article incorporates public domain text from the references [1]