Filopaludina
Genus of gastropods
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Filopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.[2]
| Filopaludina | |
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| Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Filopaludina martensi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
| Genus: | Filopaludina Habe, 1964[1] |
| Type species | |
| Paludina bengalensis Lamarck, 1818 | |
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Distribution
The indigenous distribution of Filopaludina includes Southeast Asia.
Species
Species within the genus Filopaludina are within two[3] subgenera and they include:
subgenus Siamopaludina Brandt, 1968[4][3]
- Filopaludina javanica (von dem Busch, 1844)[5][6]
- Filopaludina maekoki (Brandt, 1968)[3]
- Filopaludina martensi (Frauenfeld, 1865)[7]
subgenus Filopaludina Habe, 1964
- Filopaludina filosa (Reeve, 1863)[8]
- Filopaludina miveruensis Smith[9]
- Filopaludina sumatrensis (Dunker, 1852)[10]
- Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis Brandt, 1974[11]
subgenus ?
- Filopaludina bengalensis (Lamarck, 1818)
- Filopaludina munensis[5]
Synonyms:
- Filopaludina doliaris (Gould, 1844) is a synonym of Idiopoma doliaris (Gould, 1844)[12]
- Filopaludina mandahlbarthi[5] is a synonym of Sinotaia mandahlbarthi Brandt, 1968
- Filopaludina quadrata (Benson, 1842) is a synonym of Sinotaia quadrata (Benson, 1842)[13]
- Filopaludina simonis Bavay, 1898 is a synonym of Idiopoma simonis Bavay, 1898[14]
Ecology
Filopaludina sp. from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.[15]
