Pseudopotamis

Pseudopotamis is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

Pseudopotamis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Pseudopotamis von Martens, 1894[1]
Diversity[2]
2 species

Distribution

It occurs on the Torres Strait Islands.^[2]

A sister group (the closest relative) of Pseudopotamis is genus Tylomelania.^[2] Pseudopotamis and Tylomelania split in the Middle Miocene c. 19.5 Mya.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Pseudopotamis include:

• Pseudopotamis semoni Martens, 1894^[3]
• Pseudopotamis supralirata (E. A. Smith, 1887) - synonym: Pseudopotamis finschi Martens, 1894 - type species^[3]

Description

Pallial oviduct evolved into an uterine brood (that release shelled juvenile snails).^[2]

Ecology

Species in the genus Pseudopotamis are ovoviviparous.^[3][2]