Paramelania iridescens

Paramelania iridescens is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Paramelania iridescens
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Paramelania
Species:	P. iridescens
Binomial name
Paramelania iridescens (Moore, 1898)[2]
Synonyms
Bythoceras iridescens Moore, 1898

Distribution

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.^[1]

The type locality is towards the south shore near Sumbu, Lake Tanganyika, in depths of 182–213 m (600–700 ft).^[2][3]

Shell description

There is a spine in the upper part and in the lower part of the aperture of mature specimens.^[3]

The width of the shell is 19 mm.^[3] The height of the shell is 40 mm.^[3]

Ecology

This snail lives in Lake Tanganyika in depths of 10–150 m.^[3] It lives on a mud substrate.^[3]