Paramelania

Paramelania
	Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe:	Tiphobiini
Genus:	Paramelania; E. A. Smith, 1881[1]
Diversity[2]
	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]

Distribution

Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.[2]

Species

There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2]

Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881)[1] - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species[2]
Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)[2]

Description

The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881)[1] reads as follows:

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.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the references[1]

Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-560.
Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5. pages 149-150, 577-578.
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.

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[Smith_1881-1] Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 558-560.

[Brown_1994-2] 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, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.