Bellamya (gastropod)

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Bellamya
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Bellamya unicolor shells
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Viviparoidea
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Bellamya
Jousseaume, 1886 [1]
Type species
Bellamya bellamya
Jousseaume, 1886
Synonyms

Viviparus (Bellamya)Jousseaume, 1886

Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae. [2]

Contents

Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae. [3]

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia. [4]

Species

Species within the genus Bellamya include:

synonyms

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<i>Bellamya unicolor</i> Species of gastropod

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References

  1. Jousseaume (1886). Bull. Soc. zool. France 11: 478.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bellamya Jousseaume, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716177 on 2020-06-09
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
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