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Parafossarulus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Truncatelloidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bithyniidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Parafossarulus manchouricus, Bithyniidae, Bithynia fuchsiana, Bithynia, Semisulcospira

Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.

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Species

Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:

  • Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985
  • Parafossarulus crassitesta (Bröhmme, 1885)
  • Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld)
  • Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994
  • Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972
  • Parafossarulus manchouricus (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860)
  • Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989
  • Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842) - type species
  • Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987
  • Taxonomy

    Glöer (2002) reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.

    References

    Parafossarulus Wikipedia