Philopotamis

Philopotamis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae
Genus:	Philopotamis Layard, 1855
Type species
Paludomus sulcatus Reeve, 1847
Synonyms
Heteropoma Benson, 1856 (objective synonym) Paludomus (Philopotamis) Layard, 1855

Philopotamis is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in thesubfamily Paludominae of the family Paludomidae.

Species

• Philopotamis bicinctus (Reeve, 1854)
• Philopotamis clavatus (Reeve, 1854)
• Philopotamis decussatus (Reeve, 1854)
• Philopotamis globulosus (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
• Philopotamis nigricans (Reeve, 1847)
• Philopotamis regalis (Layard, 1855)
• Philopotamis sulcatus (Reeve, 1847)
• Philopotamis violaceus (Layard, 1855

Taxon inquirendum

• Philopotamis thwaitesii Layard, 1855

References

• Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289

External links

• Layard, E. L. (1855). Observations on the genus Paludomus of Swainson, with descriptions of several new species, and the description of a new species of Anculotus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22 (1854): 87-94
• Benson, W. H. (1856). Descriptions of three new species of Paludomus from Burmah, and of some forms of Stenothyra (Nematura) from Penang, Mergui, etc. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2. 17(102): 494-504
• Neiber M. T. & Glaubrecht M. (2019). Nomenclature of genus-group names of Recent Asian Paludomidae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea), with a revision of Paludomus (Odontochasma) stomatodon (Benson, 1862) from the Western Ghats, India. Malacologia. 62(2): 329-344
• Nevill, G. (1885). Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part II. Gastropoda. Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia (contd.). x + 306 pp. Office of Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta.