Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.[2]
Parafossarulus Temporal range:
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The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924[1] |
Type species | |
Paludina striatula Benson, 1842
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Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:
Glöer (2002)[7] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.