Stenomelania

Stenomelania is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae known as thiarids. ^[2]

Stenomelania
A live but retracted individual of Stenomelania crenulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Thiaridae
Genus:	Stenomelania Fischer, 1885[1]
Type species
Melania aspirans Hinds, 1844
Synonyms[2]
Melania (Stenomelania) P. Fischer, 1885 (original rank) Melanoides (Stenomelania) P. Fischer, 1885

Species

Species within the genus Stenomelania include:

• Stenomelania acutospira (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania amabilis (G. von dem Busch)
• Stenomelania aspirans (Hinds, 1844) - type species of the genus Stenomelania^[1][3]
• Stenomelania blatta (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania boninensis (I. Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania brenchleyi (Baird, 1873)
• Stenomelania clavus (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania coarctata (J.B.P.A. Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania costellaris (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania crenulata (Deshayes, 1838) - synonym: Stenomelania rufescens (Martens, 1860)
• Stenomelania denisoniensis (Brot, 1877)^[4]
• Stenomelania distinguenda (A. Brot)
• † Stenomelania dollfusi (Jodot, 1928)
• Stenomelania erosa (Lesson, 1831)
• Stenomelania graeffei (A. Mousson)
• |Stenomelania iaxa (A. Mousson)
• Stenomelania juncea (I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851)
• Stenomelania lancea (I. Lea, 1850)
• Stenomelania litigiosa (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania loebbeckii (A. Brot, 1877)
• Stenomelania luctuosa (Hinds, 1844)
• Stenomelania lutosa (A. Gould, 1847)
• Stenomelania macilenta (Menke, 1830)
• Stenomelania mucronata (von dem Busch, 1853)
• Stenomelania persulcata (Mousson, 1869)
• Stenomelania plicaria I. von Born, 1778
• Stenomelania punctata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Stenomelania rustica (Mousson, 1857)
• Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) - synonym: Bulimus torulosus Bruguière, 1789^[5][6]
• Stenomelania uniformis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834^[7]
• Stenomelania waigiensis (Lesson, 1831)

Synonyms:

• Stenomelania arthurii (Brot, 1870): synonym of Stenomelania persulcata (Mousson, 1869) (junior synonym)
• Stenomelania funiculus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria (Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania hastula (I. Lea, 1850): synonym of Stenomelania plicaria (Born, 1778)
• Stenomelania housei Lea, 1856 is a synonym of Sulcospira housei (Lea, 1856)
• Stenomelania rufescens (Martens, 1860): synonym of Stenomelania crenulata (Deshayes, 1838)
• Stenomelania semicancellata (von dem Busch, 1844): synonym of Stenomelania torulosa (Bruguière, 1789) (junior subjective synonym)