Bellamya (gastropod)

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Viviparoidea Subfamily Bellamyinae Launched 1976 Weight 633 tons Rank Genus		Class Gastropoda Family Viviparidae Construction started 1975 Length 414 m Phylum Mollusca

Similar Cipangopaludina, Chinese mystery snail, Sinotaia aeruginosa, Viviparus, Margarya

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

Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae.

Distribution

Indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia.

Species within the genus Bellamya include:

Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)

Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)

Bellamya constricta (Martens, 1889)

Bellamya contracta (Haas, 1934)

Bellamya costulata (Martens, 1892)

Bellamya crassa (Benson, 1836)

Bellamya crassispiralis Annandale, 1921

Bellamya crawshayi (Smith, 1893)

Bellamya dissimilis (Mueller, 1774)

Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964)

Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)

Bellamya hilmandensis (Kobelt, 1909)

Bellamya jeffreysi (Frauenfeld, 1865)

Bellamya jucunda (Smith, 1892)

Bellamya leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898)

Bellamya liberiana (Schepman, 1888)

Bellamya manhongensis Zhang, Liu & Wang, 1981

Bellamya micron Annandale, 1921

Bellamya monardi (Haas, 1934)

Bellamya mweruensis (Smith, 1893)

Bellamya pagodiformis (Smith, 1893)

Bellamya phthinotropis (Martens, 1892)

Bellamya robertsoni (Frauenfeld, 1865)

Bellamya rubicunda (Martens, 1879)

Bellamya trochlearis (Martens, 1892)

Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) - Bellamya duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of Bellamya unicolor

synonyms

Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863) is a synonym of Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) - Chinese mystery snail

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