Bridouxia

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title: "Bridouxia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["paludomidae", "gastropod-genera", "taxonomy-articles-created-by-polbot", "taxa-named-by-jules-rené-bourguignat"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/paludomidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridouxia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

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• Baizea Bourguignat, 1885
• Coulboisia Bourguignat, 1888
• Giraudia Bourguignat, 1885
• Lechaptoisia Ancey, 1894

Bridouxia is a genus of small tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.

Species of this genus are endemic to the Lake Tanganyika.

Species

Species within the genus Bridouxia include:

• Bridouxia giraudi Bourguignat, 1885 - type species
• Bridouxia leucoraphe (Ancey, 1890)
• Bridouxia ponsonbyi (Smith, 1889)
• Bridouxia praeclara (Bourguignat, 1885)
• Bridouxia rotundata (Smith, 1904)
• Bridouxia smithiana (Bourguignat, 1885) ;Species brought into synonymy:
• Bridouxia costata Bourguignat, 1885: synonym of Bridouxia giraudi Bourguignat, 1885
• Bridouxia reymondi Bourguignat, 1885: synonym of Bridouxia giraudi Bourguignat, 1885
• Bridouxia villeserriana Bourguignat, 1885: synonym of Bridouxia giraudi Bourguignat, 1885

Ecology

They live on hard substrata in shallow water on shores of Lake Tanganyika.

References

References

1. [[Jules René Bourguignat. Bourguignat J. R.]] (1885). ''Notice prodromique sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis par M. Victor Giraud dans la region méridionale du lac Tanganika'' [https://archive.org/stream/noticeprodromiqu00bour#page/10/mode/2up page 10-11], [https://archive.org/stream/noticeprodromiqu00bour#page/28/mode/2up 29].
2. Bourguignat J. R. (1888). ''Icon. Malac. Moll. Fluv. Tanganika'', 39, 40.
3. Ancey C. F. (1894). ''[[Bull. Soc. zool. France]]'' '''19''': 29.
4. Lange, C.. (2010). "''Bridouxia giraudi''".
5. Brown D. S. (1994). ''Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance''. [[Taylor & Francis]]. {{ISBN. 0-7484-0026-5.
6. Ngereza, C.. (2010). "''Ponsonbya leucoraphe''".
7. Ngereza, C.. (2010). "''Bridouxia ponsonbyi''".
8. Ngereza, C.. (2010). "''Bridouxia praeclara''".
9. Ngereza, C.. (2004). "''Bridouxia rotundata''".
10. Lange, C.N.. (2004). "''Bridouxia smithiana''".

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