Saulea
| Saulea | |
|---|---|
| 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[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 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.[3]
The genus Saulea is known from Africa.
Species
There are two[2] species within the genus Saulea:
- † Saulea lithoides (Pain & Beatty, 1964)[2] - in East Africa[4]
- Saulea vitrea (Born, 1780) - type species[2] - in West Africa[4]
References
- ↑ Gray (1868). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 1000.
- 1 2 3 4 "Saulea". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- 1 2 Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
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