Paramelania
Genus of gastropods
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::summary Genus of gastropods ::
| image = Paramelania damoni shell.png | image_caption = Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni | taxon = Paramelania | authority = E. A. Smith, 1881 | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = | diversity = 2 described species, possibly more species
Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.
Distribution
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Species
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:
- Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881) - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species
- Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)
Description
The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) 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
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References
- Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". ''[[Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London]]'' '''1881''': [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen81zool#page/558/mode/1up 558]-560.
- 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 2005
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