Neoprososthenia

Neoprososthenia is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Neoprososthenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:	Triculinae
Tribe:	Jullieniini[1]
Genus:	Neoprososthenia Davis & Kuo, 1981[2]
Diversity[2]
4 species

Species

The genus was established for extant species that were previously placed in the genus Paraprososthenia.[2]

Species within the genus Neoprososthenia include:

• Neoprososthenia hanseni (Brandt, 1970)[2]
• Neoprososthenia iijimai (Brandt, 1970)[2]
• Neoprososthenia levayi (Bavay, 1895) - type species[2]
• Neoprososthenia poirieri (Brandt, 1970)[2]

References

1. Davis G. M., Wilke T., Zhang Y., Xu X.-J., Qiu C.-P., Spolsky C., Qiu D.-C., Li Y., Xia M.-Y. & Feng Z. (1999). "Snail-Schistosoma, Paragonimus interactions in China: population ecology, genetic diversity, coevolution and emerging diseases". Malacologia 41(2): 355-377.
2. Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H., Elaine Hoagland K., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1981). "Kunmingia, a New Genus of Triculinae (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) from China: Phenetic and Cladistic Relationships". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 136: 165-193. JSTOR.