Bellamya (gastropod)

For the supertanker of the same name, see Bellamya.

Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.^[2]

Bellamya
Bellamya unicolor shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Viviparoidea
Family:	Viviparidae
Genus:	Bellamya Jousseaume, 1886[1]
Type species
Bellamya bellamya Jousseaume, 1886
Synonyms
Viviparus (Bellamya) Jousseaume, 1886

Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae.^[3]

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia.^[4]

Species

Species within the genus Bellamya include:

• Bellamya alberti (Cox, 1926) †
• Bellamya beijiangensis Yü & Zhang, 1982 †
• Bellamya campaniformis Bickel, 1976 †
• Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)^[4]
• Bellamya celsispiralis Gurung, Takayasu & Matsuoka, 1997 †
• Bellamya constricta (Martens, 1889)^[4]
• Bellamya contracta (Haas, 1934)^[4]
• Bellamya crassispiralis Annandale, 1921^[5]
• Bellamya crawshayi (Smith, 1893)^[4]
• Bellamya dagangensis Youluo, 1978 †
• Bellamya dissimilis (Mueller, 1774)^[6]
• Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964)^[4]
• Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)^[7]
• Bellamya hilmandensis (Kobelt, 1909)
• Bellamya jeffreysi (Frauenfeld, 1865)^[4]
• Bellamya jiangyouensis Yü, 1974 †
• Bellamya kowiayiensis (Brazier, 1886)
• Bellamya kweilinensis (Hsü, 1935) †
• Bellamya leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898)^[4]
• Bellamya liberiana (Schepman, 1888)^[4]
• Bellamya micron Annandale, 1921^[8]
• Bellamya monardi (Haas, 1934)^[4]
• Bellamya mweruensis (Smith, 1893)^[4]
• Bellamya orlovi (Lindholm, 1932) †
• Bellamya pagodiformis (Smith, 1893)^[4]
• Bellamya phthinotropis (Martens, 1892)^[4]
• Bellamya retusa (Meek & Hayden, 1856) †
• Bellamya robertsoni (Frauenfeld, 1865)^[4]
• Bellamya rubicunda (Martens, 1879)^[4]
• Bellamya suzukii Matsuoka, 1985 †
• Bellamya tenuisculpta (von Martens, 1874) †
• Bellamya trochlearis (Martens, 1892)^[4]
• Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) - Bellamya duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of Bellamya unicolor^[4]

synonyms

• Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822):^[4] synonym of Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
• Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863): synonym of Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) - Chinese mystery snail^[9]
• Bellamya costulata (Martens, 1892):^[4] synonym of Bellamya constricta (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
• Bellamya crassa (Benson, 1836):^[10] synonym of Mekongia crassa (Benson, 1836) (a junior synonym)
• Bellamya jucunda (Smith, 1892):^[4] synonym of Bellamya constricta (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
• Bellamya manhongensis Zhang, Liu & Wang, 1981: synonym of Sinotaia manhongensis (W.-Z. Zhang, Y.-F. Liu & Y.-X. Wang, 1981) (original combination)