Stenomelania
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| Stenomelania | |
|---|---|
| A live but retracted individual of Stenomelania crenulata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Thiaridae |
| Genus: | Stenomelania Fischer, 1885[1] |
| Type species | |
| Melania aspirans Hinds, 1844 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Stenomelania is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Thiarinae of the family Thiaridae known as thiarids.[2]