Bathanalia
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Bathanalia is a genus
of tropical freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae
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This genus is endemic to the Lake Tanganyika
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tropical freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae
Paludomidae
Paludomidae, common name paludomids, is a family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.- Taxonomy :The following three subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi :...
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This genus is endemic to the Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...
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Species
Species within the genus Bathanalia include:- Bathanalia howesiBathanalia howesiBathanalia howesi is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.Bathanalia howesi is the type species of the genus Bathanalia.- Distribution :...
(Moore, 1898) - type species - Bathanalia straeleniBathanalia straeleniBathanalia straeleni is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.This species found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is intermittent freshwater lakes.- Further reading :*...
Leloup, 1953
Further reading
- Moore J. E. (1898). "Descriptions of the genera Bathanalia and Bythoceras, from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3 : 92-93.