Cleopatra (gastropod)

Cleopatra
	Shell of Cleopatra ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Subfamily:	Cleopatrinae
Genus:	Cleopatra; Troschel, 1857
Diversity
	Approximately 20 species

Cleopatra is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae within the subfamily Cleopatrinae.

Cleopatra is the type genus of the subfamily Cleopatrinae.^[3]

Distribution

The distribution of the species within this genus includes Egypt.^{[citation needed]}

The genus Cleopatra includes the following species:

Cleopatra africana (Martens, 1878)^[2]
Cleopatra athiensis Verdcourt, 1957^[2]
Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 - synonym: Potadomoides broecki (Putzeys, 1899)^[5]
Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier, 1804) - type species^[2]
Cleopatra colbeaui (Craven, 1880)^[2]
Cleopatra cridlandi Mandahl-Barth, 1954^[2]
Cleopatra elata Dautzenberg & Germain, 1914^[2]
Cleopatra exarata (Martens, 1878)^[2]
Cleopatra ferruginea (I. & H. C. Lea, 1850)^[2]
Cleopatra grandidieri (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)^[2]
Cleopatra guillemei Bourguignat, 1885^[2]
Cleopatra hemmingi Verdcourt, 1956^[2]
Cleopatra johnstoni Smith, 1893^[2]
Cleopatra langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[2]
Cleopatra madagascariensis (Crosse & Fischer, 1872)^[2]
Cleopatra mweruensis Smith, 1893^[2]
Cleopatra nsendweensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1902^[2]
Cleopatra obscura Mandahl-Barth, 1968^[2]
Cleopatra pilula Mandahl-Barth, 1967^[2]
Cleopatra rugosa Connolly, 1925^[2]
Cleopatra smithi Ancey, 1906^[2]

The habitat of species in this genus includes slow-running freshwater streams.^[4]

Parasites of Cleopatra include:

^ Troschel (1857). Gebiss Schneck. 1: 100.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
^ 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 Amany A. Tohamy & Shaimaa M. Mohamed (2006). "Chromosomal studies on two Egyptian freshwater snails, Cleopatra and Bithynia (Mollusca-Prosobranchiata)". Arab J. Biotech. 9(1): 17-26. PDF. Archived July 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Glaubrecht M. (2010). "The enigmatic Cleopatra broecki Putzeys, 1899 of the Congo River system in Africa – re-transfer from Potadomoides Leloup, 1953 (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 283-293. doi:10.1002/zoos.201000011.