Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Paludomidae Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea Subfamily Hauttecoeuriinae | |
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Similar Paramelania damoni, Tiphobia horei, Paludomidae, Neothauma, Martelia | ||
Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.
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Distribution
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Species
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:
Description
The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) reads as follows:
References
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