Stenomelania

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Phylum:Mollusca
Superfamily:Cerithioidea
Stenomelania
A live but retracted individual of Stenomelania crenulata
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Melania (Stenomelania) P. Fischer, 1885 (original rank)
  • Melanoides (Stenomelania) P. Fischer, 1885

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]

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