Paramelania

Paramelania
Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Paramelania E. A. Smith, 1881 [1]
Diversity [2]
2 described species, possibly more species

Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae. ^[3]

Distribution

Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa. ^[2]

Species

There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more: ^[2]

• Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881) ^[1] - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species ^[2]
• Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898) ^[2]

Description

The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) ^[1] 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

This article incorporates public domain text from the references ^[1]

1. Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-560.
2. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   0-7484-0026-5. pages 149-150, 577-578.
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.