Saulea

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Saulea is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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Saulea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Ampullariinae
Genus: Saulea
Gray, 1868[1]
Diversity[2]
2 species
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Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.[3]

The genus Saulea is known from Africa.

Species

There are two[2] species within the genus Saulea:

  • Saulea lithoides (Pain & Beatty, 1964)[2] - in East Africa[4]
  • Saulea vitrea (Born, 1780) - type species[2] - in West Africa[4]

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