''Parafossarulus'' is a
genus
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of
freshwater snail
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s with
gill
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s and an
operculum, an
aquatic prosobranch
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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Bithyniidae
Bithyniidae is a family of small freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Bithyniidae Gray, 1857. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758823 on 2014-11-19]
Species
Species within the genus ''Parafossarulus'' include:
* ''
Parafossarulus anomalospiralis'' Liu, Li & Liu, 1985
* † ''
Parafossarulus crassitesta'' (Bröhmme, 1885)
* ''
Parafossarulus eximius'' (Frauenfeld)
* ''
Parafossarulus globosus'' Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994
[Bouchet, P. (2014). ''Parafossarulus globosus'' Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758826 on 2014-05-16]
* † ''
Parafossarulus priscillae'' Girotti, 1972
* ''
Parafossarulus manchouricus'' (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860)
[Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories"]
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* '' Parafossarulus spiridonovi'' Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989
Taxonomy
Glöer (2002)[Glöer P. (2002). ''Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas''. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., , page 190-194.] reassigned two European extinct species of ''Parafossarulus'' into a subgenus of the genus ''Bithynia
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'', but the genus ''Parafossarulus'' is generally accepted for the Asian species.
References
External links
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Bithyniidae
Gastropod genera
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