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Tanganyicia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Paludomidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Cerithioidea

Subfamily
  
Hauttecoeuriinae

Similar
  
Paludomidae, Tiphobia horei, Thiaridae, Caenogastropoda, Melanoides

Tanganyicia is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.

Before 2002 this genus was placed within the family Thiaridae.

Species

Brown (1994) considered Tanganyicia rufofilosa a very variable species and the only species within the genus Tanganyicia. Later, in 1999, another species was described.

Species within the genus Tanganyicia include:

  • Tanganyicia michelae (West, 1999)
  • Tanganyicia rufofilosa (Smith, 1880) - type species
  • References

    Tanganyicia Wikipedia