Paramelania

Updated on Dec 10, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Paludomidae Rank Genus		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Cerithioidea Subfamily Hauttecoeuriinae

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.

Distribution

Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.

There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:

Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881) - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species

Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)

The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) reads as follows:

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