Saulea | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Subfamily: | Ampullariinae |
Tribe: | Sauleini |
Genus: | Saulea Gray, 1868 |
Diversity | |
2 species |
Saulea is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.
The genus Saulea is known from Africa.
Species
There are two species within the genus Saulea:
- † Saulea lithoides (Pain & Beatty, 1964) - in East Africa
- Saulea vitrea (Born, 1780) - type species - in West Africa
References
- Gray (1868). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 1000.
- ^ "Saulea". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
- Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
Taxon identifiers | |
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