Bellamya | |
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Bellamya unicolor shells | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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]
Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae. [3]
The indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia. [4]
Species within the genus Bellamya include:
Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large aquatic gastropod mollusks, being some of the most widely distributed operculate freshwater snails.
The Chinese mystery snail, black snail, or trapdoor snail, is a large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae. The Japanese variety of this species is black and usually a dark green, moss-like alga covers the shell.
Cipangopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya constricta is a species of freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya phthinotropis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya trochlearis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
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.
Filopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.
Gabbia is a genus of a freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.
Filopaludina miveruensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Filopaludina sumatrensis is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Filopaludina javanica or Idiopoma javanica is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Sinotaia is a genus of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.
Angulyagra polyzonata is a species of a freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae.
Filopaludina bengalensis, also known as Bellamya bengalensis, is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Bellamya unicolor is a species of large freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Viviparidae.
Cipangopaludina lecythoides is a species of a freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.
Mekongia is a genus of Viviparidae, a gastropoda mollusca in the subfamily Bellamyinae of the family Viviparidae.