| 词条 | Paramelania |
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| name = Paramelania | image = Paramelania damoni shell.png | image_caption = Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Mollusca | classis = Gastropoda | unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha | superfamilia = Cerithioidea | familia = Paludomidae | subfamilia = Hauttecoeuriinae | tribus = Tiphobiini | genus = Paramelania | genus_authority = E. A. Smith, 1881[1] | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = [2] | diversity = 2 described species, possibly more species }}Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.[3] DistributionSpecies of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.[2] SpeciesThere are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2]
DescriptionThe type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881)[1] reads as follows: {{cquote|Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate, longitudinally ribbed and transversely lirate, covered with a thin epidermis. Aperture ovate, entire, indistinctly effuse at the base. Last whorl sometimes slightly prolonged inferiorly. Peristome thick, margins joined by a callosity. Operculum like that of Tiphobia. }} ReferencesThis article incorporates public domain text from the references[1] 1. ^1 2 3 Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen81zool#page/558/mode/1up 558]-560. {{Taxonbar|from=Q7135190}}2. ^1 2 3 4 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}. pages 149-150, 577-578. 3. ^{{Bouchet 2005}} 4 : Paludomidae|Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith|Gastropod genera|Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
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