Parafossarulus

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Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.[2]

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Parafossarulus
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent
The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Bithyniidae
Genus: Parafossarulus
Annandale, 1924[1]
Type species
Paludina striatula
Benson, 1842
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Species

Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:

Taxonomy

Glöer (2002)[7] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.

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