''Bellamya'' is a
genus
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of
freshwater snails with a
gill
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and an
operculum,
aquatic gastropod mollusk
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s in the family
Viviparidae
Viviparidae, sometimes known as the river snails or mystery snails, are a family of large operculate freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
This family is classified in the informal group Architaenioglossa according to the taxonomy ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bellamya Jousseaume, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716177 on 2020-06-09]
''Bellamya'' is the
type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...
of the subfamily Bellamyinae.
Distribution
The indigenous distribution of ''Bellamya'' includes Africa and Asia.
Species
Species within the genus ''Bellamya'' include:
* ''
Bellamya alberti'' (Cox, 1926) †
* ''
Bellamya beijiangensis'' Yü & Zhang, 1982 †
* ''
Bellamya campaniformis'' Bickel, 1976 †
* ''
Bellamya capillata'' (Frauenfeld, 1865)
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* ''
Bellamya celsispiralis'' Gurung, Takayasu & Matsuoka, 1997 †
* ''
Bellamya constricta'' (Martens, 1889)
* ''
Bellamya contracta'' (Haas, 1934)
* ''
Bellamya crassispiralis'' Annandale, 1921
* ''
Bellamya crawshayi'' (Smith, 1893)
* ''
Bellamya dagangensis'' Youluo, 1978 †
* ''
Bellamya dissimilis'' (Mueller, 1774)
* ''
Bellamya ecclesi'' (Crowley & Pain, 1964)
* ''
Bellamya heudei guangdungensis'' (Kobelt, 1906)
[Kear B. P., Hamilton-Bruce R. J., Smith B. J. & Gowlett-Holmes K. L. (2003). "Reassessment of Australia's oldest freshwater snail, ''Viviparus'' (?) ''albascopularis'' Etheridge, 1902 (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Viviparidae), from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian, Wallumbilla Formation) of White Cliffs, New South Wales". '' Molluscan Research'' 23(2): 149-158. ]
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* ''
Bellamya hilmandensis''
(Kobelt, 1909)
* ''
Bellamya jeffreysi'' (Frauenfeld, 1865)
* ''
Bellamya jiangyouensis'' Yü, 1974 †
* ''
Bellamya kowiayiensis'' (Brazier, 1886)
* ''
Bellamya kweilinensis'' (Hsü, 1935) †
* ''
Bellamya leopoldvillensis'' (Putzeys, 1898)
* ''
Bellamya liberiana'' (Schepman, 1888)
* ''
Bellamya micron'' Annandale, 1921
* ''
Bellamya monardi'' (Haas, 1934)
* ''
Bellamya mweruensis'' (Smith, 1893)
* ''
Bellamya orlovi'' (Lindholm, 1932) †
* ''
Bellamya pagodiformis'' (Smith, 1893)
* ''
Bellamya phthinotropis'' (Martens, 1892)
* ''
Bellamya retusa'' (Meek & Hayden, 1856) †
* ''
Bellamya robertsoni'' (Frauenfeld, 1865)
* ''
Bellamya rubicunda'' (Martens, 1879)
* ''
Bellamya suzukii'' Matsuoka, 1985 †
* ''
Bellamya tenuisculpta'' (von Martens, 1874) †
* ''
Bellamya trochlearis'' (Martens, 1892)
* ''
Bellamya unicolor'' (Olivier, 1804) - ''Bellamya duponti'' De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of ''Bellamya unicolor''
;synonyms:
* ''Bellamya bengalensis'' (Lamarck, 1822):
synonym of ''
Filopaludina bengalensis'' (Lamarck, 1822)
* ''Bellamya chinensis'' (Reeve 1863): synonym of ''Cipangopaludina chinensis'' (Gray, 1834) -
Chinese mystery snail[Lu H.-F., Du L.-N., Li Z.-Q., Chen X.-Y. & Yang J.-X. (2014). "Morphological analysis of the Chinese ''Cipangopaludina'' species (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Viviparidae). '' Zoological Research'' 35(6): 510-527. .]
* ''Bellamya costulata'' (Martens, 1892):
synonym of ''
Bellamya constricta'' (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
* ''Bellamya crassa'' (Benson, 1836):
synonym of ''
Mekongia crassa'' (Benson, 1836) (a junior synonym)
* ''Bellamya jucunda'' (Smith, 1892):
synonym of ''
Bellamya constricta'' (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
* ''Bellamya manhongensis''
Zhang, Liu & Wang, 1981: synonym of ''
Sinotaia manhongensis'' (W.-Z. Zhang, Y.-F. Liu & Y.-X. Wang, 1981) (original combination)
References
External links
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Viviparidae
Gastropod genera
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