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Oncomelania
Sign in to saveOncomelania is a genus of very small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyPomatiopsidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pomatiopsidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM
- Recorded in
- Japan, Taiwan, China
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Oncomelania is a genus of very small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
These Oncomelania snails are distantly related to the marine periwinkle, and more closely related to the small marine snails of the family Rissoidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oncomelania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.