Bellamya (gastropod)
Genus of gastropods
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Bellamya is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Viviparidae.[2]
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| Bellamya | |
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| Bellamya unicolor shells | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Viviparoidea |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Genus: | Bellamya Jousseaume, 1886[1] |
| Type species | |
| Bellamya bellamya Jousseaume, 1886 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Viviparus (Bellamya) Jousseaume, 1886 | |
Bellamya is the type genus of the subfamily Bellamyinae.[3]
Distribution
The indigenous distribution of Bellamya includes Africa and Asia.[4]
Species
Species within the genus Bellamya include:
- Bellamya alberti (Cox, 1926) †
- Bellamya beijiangensis Yü & Zhang, 1982 †
- Bellamya campaniformis Bickel, 1976 †
- Bellamya capillata (Frauenfeld, 1865)[4]
- Bellamya celsispiralis Gurung, Takayasu & Matsuoka, 1997 †
- Bellamya constricta (Martens, 1889)[4]
- Bellamya contracta (Haas, 1934)[4]
- Bellamya crassispiralis Annandale, 1921[5]
- Bellamya crawshayi (Smith, 1893)[4]
- Bellamya dagangensis Youluo, 1978 †
- Bellamya dissimilis (Mueller, 1774)[6]
- Bellamya ecclesi (Crowley & Pain, 1964)[4]
- Bellamya heudei guangdungensis (Kobelt, 1906)[7]
- Bellamya hilmandensis (Kobelt, 1909)
- Bellamya jeffreysi (Frauenfeld, 1865)[4]
- Bellamya jiangyouensis Yü, 1974 †
- Bellamya kowiayiensis (Brazier, 1886)
- Bellamya kweilinensis (Hsü, 1935) †
- Bellamya leopoldvillensis (Putzeys, 1898)[4]
- Bellamya liberiana (Schepman, 1888)[4]
- Bellamya micron Annandale, 1921[8]
- Bellamya monardi (Haas, 1934)[4]
- Bellamya mweruensis (Smith, 1893)[4]
- Bellamya orlovi (Lindholm, 1932) †
- Bellamya pagodiformis (Smith, 1893)[4]
- Bellamya phthinotropis (Martens, 1892)[4]
- Bellamya retusa (Meek & Hayden, 1856) †
- Bellamya robertsoni (Frauenfeld, 1865)[4]
- Bellamya rubicunda (Martens, 1879)[4]
- Bellamya suzukii Matsuoka, 1985 †
- Bellamya tenuisculpta (von Martens, 1874) †
- Bellamya trochlearis (Martens, 1892)[4]
- Bellamya unicolor (Olivier, 1804) - Bellamya duponti De Rochebrune, 1882 is the type species and it is probably synonym of Bellamya unicolor[4]
- synonyms
- Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822):[4] synonym of Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Bellamya chinensis (Reeve 1863): synonym of Cipangopaludina chinensis (Gray, 1834) - Chinese mystery snail[9]
- Bellamya costulata (Martens, 1892):[4] synonym of Bellamya constricta (von Martens, 1889) (a junior synonym)
- Bellamya crassa (Benson, 1836):[10] synonym of Mekongia crassa (Benson, 1836) (a junior synonym)
- Bellamya jucunda (Smith, 1892):[4] 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)
