Paramelania Explained

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.

Species

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)

Description

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

References

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