Parafossarulus
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Parafossarulus Temporal range: Pleistocene-Recent |
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| The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: |
Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924 |
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Paludina striatula Benson, 1842 |
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clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.
Species within the genus Parafossarulus include:
Glöer (2002) 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.
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