Cipangopaludina

Cipangopaludina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Viviparoidea
Family:	Viviparidae
Subfamily:	Bellamyinae
Genus:	Cipangopaludina Hannibal, 1912^[1]

Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.

Species

Species within the genus Cipangopaludina include:

Cipangopaludina lecythis (Benson)^[2]

synonyms:

Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) is a synonym for Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863) - Chinese mystery snail^[3]

References

^ Hannibal H. B. (1912). Proc. malac. Soc. London 10: 194.
^ (file created 29 July 2010) FRESH WATER MOLLUSCAN SPECIES IN INDIA. 11 pp. accessed 31 July 2010.
^ Solomon C. T., Olden J. D., Johnson P. T. J., Dillon R. T. & Vander Zanden M. J. (2010). "Distribution and community-level effects of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in northern Wisconsin lakes". Biological Invasions 12: 1591-1605. PDF.