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Notopala

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Viviparidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Viviparoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Heterogen longispira, Campeloma, Tulotoma magnifica, Margarya, Viviparus georgianus

Notopala is a genus of large, freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae, the river snails or mystery snails.

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Description

The shell is dextral and globose-conic. The shell has up to five whorls. The aperture is subovate. The operculum is corneous.

Species

Species within the genus Notopala include:

  • † Notopala albascopularis (Etheridge, 1902) - synonym: Viviparus (?) albascopularis Etheridge, 1902 - from Aptian, Wallumbilla Formation, New South Wales
  • Notopala essiengionensis (Frauenfeld, 1862)
  • Notopala sublineata Conrad, 1850
  • Notopala sublineata sublineata Conrad, 1850
  • Notopala sublineata alisoni (Brazier, 1979)
  • Notopala sublineata hanleyi (Frauenfeld, 1864) / Notopala hanleyi
  • † Notopala wanjacalda Cotton, 1935 - from upper Pleistocene near Sunnyside, South Australia
  • Notopala waterhousii (Adams & Angus, 1864)

    • The type species of the genus Notopala is Paludina hanleyi von Frauenfeld, 1864.

    References

    Notopala Wikipedia
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