Saulea

Saulea is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Saulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Subfamily:
Ampullariinae
Tribe:
Sauleini
Genus:
Saulea

Gray, 1868[1]
Diversity[2]
2 species

Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.[3]

The genus Saulea is known from Africa.

Species

There 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
  1. Gray (1868). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 1000.
  2. "Saulea". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.


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