Paramelania
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Paramelania damoni shell.png
| image_caption = Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Paramelania damoni
| taxon = Paramelania
| authority = E. A. Smith, 1881Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen81zool#page/558/mode/1up 558]-560.
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| diversity_ref = Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}. pages 149-150, 577-578.
| diversity =
2 described species, possibly more species
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Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.{{Bouchet 2005}}
Distribution
Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.
Species
Description
The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881) reads as follows:
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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.
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References
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Category:Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith