Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.[3]
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.[2]
There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2]
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.
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Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.
