Paramelania iridescens

Paramelania iridescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Paludomidae
Subfamily: Hauttecoeuriinae
Tribe: Tiphobiini
Genus: Paramelania
Species: P. iridescens
Binomial name
Paramelania iridescens
(Moore, 1898)[2]
Synonyms

Bythoceras iridescens Moore, 1898

Paramelania iridescens is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

Distribution

This species is found in Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, also in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.[1]

The type locality is towards the south shore near Sumbu, Lake Tanganyika, in depths of 182–213 m (600–700 ft).[2][3]

Shell description

There is a spine in the upper part and in the lower part of the aperture of mature specimens.[3]

The width of the shell is 19 mm.[3] The height of the shell is 40 mm.[3]

Ecology

This snail lives in Lake Tanganyika in depths of 10–150 m.[3] It lives on a mud substrate.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Nicayennzi F. & Lange C. N. (2004). Paramelania iridescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. 1 2 Moore J. E. S. (1898). "Descriptions of the genera Bathanalia and Bythoceras, from Lake Tanganyika". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 92-93.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.

Further reading

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