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Parafossarulus sungariensis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Bithyniidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Truncatelloidea

Genus
  
Parafossarulus

Parafossarulus sungariensis is a species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Contents

The specific name sungariensis comes from the name of the Sungari River, where this species was found.

Distribution

This species occurs in Heilongjiang Province and in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

The type locality is the Sungari River basin, a small lake near Harbin.

Habitat

Parafossarulus sungariensis lives in freshwater lakes and rivers.

References

Parafossarulus sungariensis Wikipedia