Paludomus
Encyclopedia
Paludomus is a genus
of tropical freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic
gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae
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Paludomus is the type genus
of the family Paludomidae.
Species within the genus Paludomus include:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tropical freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic
Aquatic animal
An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills, or directly through its skin. Natural environments and the animals that...
gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae
Paludomidae
Paludomidae, common name paludomids, is a family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.- Taxonomy :The following three subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi :...
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Paludomus is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the family Paludomidae.
Species
15 Species of the genus Paludomus have been listed in the 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.Species within the genus Paludomus include:
- Paludomus ajanensisPaludomus ajanensisPaludomus ajanensis is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Thiaridae.The natural habitat of this species is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.It lives in Seychelles....
Morelet, 1860 - Paludomus andersoniana Nevill, 1877
- Paludomus blanfordiana Nevill, 1877
- Paludomus burmanica Nevill, 1877
- Paludomus conica Gray, 1834 - synonym: Melania conica Gray, 1834
- Paludomus dhuma Rao, 1925
- Paludomus globulosa (Gray in Reeve, 1847)
- Paludomus loricatus Reeve, 1847
- Paludomus nana Nevill, 1881
- Paludomus ornatus Benson, 1856
- Paludomus parvula Rao, 1929
- Paludomus pustulosa Annandale, 1925
- Paludomus regulata Benson, 1856
- Paludomus reticulata Blanford, 1870
- Paludomus stephanus Benson, 1836
- Paludomus sulcatus
Further reading
- Layard E. L.Edgar Leopold LayardEdgar Leopold Layard CMG, FZS, MBOU was a British naturalist mainly interested in ornithology. Born in Florence, Italy, to a family of Huguenot descent, he was the sixth son of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service with his wife Marianne,...
(1854). "Observations on the Genus Paludomus of Swainson, with Descriptions of several New Species, and the Description of a New Species of Anculotus". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (for 1854)22: 87-94.