Saulea is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
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| Genus: | Saulea Gray, 1868[1]
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Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.[3]
The genus Saulea is known from Africa.
Species
editThere 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
edit- ^ Gray (1868). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 1000.
- ^ a b c d "Saulea". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ a b Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
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