Paramelania

Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.^[3]

Paramelania
Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Paramelania E. A. Smith, 1881[1]
Diversity[2]
2 described species, possibly more species

Distribution

Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.^[2]

Species

There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:^[2]

• Paramelania damoni (Smith, 1881)^[1] - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species^[2]
• Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)^[2]

Description

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.