Parafossarulus

Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.^[2]

Parafossarulus Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924[1]
Type species
Paludina striatula Benson, 1842

Species

Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:

• Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985^[3]
• † Parafossarulus crassitesta (Bröhmme, 1885)
• Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld)^[4]
• Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994^[5]
• † Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972
• Parafossarulus manchouricus (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860)^[6]
• Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989^[6]
• Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842) - type species^[1]
• Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987^[6]

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002)^[7] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.