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Pseudopotamis

Pseudopotamis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Pseudopotamis
von Martens, 1894
Diversity
2 species

Pseudopotamis is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae.

It occurs on the Torres Strait Islands.

A sister group (the closest relative) of Pseudopotamis is genus Tylomelania.Pseudopotamis and Tylomelania split in the Middle Miocene c. 19.5 Mya.

Species within the genus Pseudopotamis include:

Pallial oviduct evolved into an uterine brood (that release shelled juvenile snails).

Species in the genus Pseudopotamis are ovoviviparous.



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