Saulea

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| name = Saulea

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| image_caption = A shell of Saulea ...

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

| superfamilia = Ampullarioidea

| familia = Ampullariidae

| subfamilia = Ampullariinae

| tribus = Sauleini

| genus = Saulea

| genus_authority = Gray, 1868Gray (1868). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 1000.

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2 species

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Saulea is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.{{Bouchet 2005}}

The genus Saulea is known from Africa.

Species

There are two[http://www.applesnail.net/content/saulea.htm "Saulea"]. The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011. species within the genus Saulea:

  • Saulea lithoides (Pain & Beatty, 1964) - in East Africa
  • Saulea vitrea (Born, 1780) - type species - in West AfricaBrown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}.

References

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Category:Ampullariidae

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