Amuropaludina | |
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Drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Amuropaludina pachya . | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Viviparidae |
Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
Genus: | Amuropaludina Moskvicheva, 1979 [1] |
Amuropaludina is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae. [2]
Species within the genus Amuropaludina include:
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Campeloma is a genus of gilled operculate freshwater snails in the family Viviparidae.
Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Neothauma is a genus of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae.
Theodoxus is a genus of nerites, small water snails with an operculum, some of which live in freshwater, and some in both freshwater and brackish water, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Neritidae, the nerites.
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Margarya is a genus of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.
Amuropaludina pachya is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Amuropaludina chloantha is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Amuropaludina praerosa is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
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