Paramelania

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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:

Description

The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) 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.

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