Paramelania

Paramelania
Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Tiphobiini
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]

Distribution

Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.[2]

Species

There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2]

Description

The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881)[1] reads as follows:

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the references[1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-560.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5. pages 149-150, 577-578.
  3. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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