Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.[3]
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| Genus: | Paramelania E. A. Smith, 1881[1]
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Distribution edit
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.[2]
Species edit
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2]
- Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881)[1] - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species[2]
- Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)[2]
Description edit
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.
References edit
This article incorporates public domain text from the references[1]
- ^ a b c d Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-560.
- ^ a b c d e Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5. pages 149-150, 577-578.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.