Parafossarulus
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:
- Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985
- † Parafossarulus crassitesta
- Parafossarulus eximius
- Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994
- † Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972
- Parafossarulus manchouricus
- Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989
- Parafossarulus striatulus - type species
- Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987
Taxonomy
Glöer 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.
