Saulea
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Saulea is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae
, the apple snails.
Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.
The genus Saulea is known from Africa.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...
, the apple snails.
Saulea is the type genus of the tribe Sauleini.
The genus Saulea is known from Africa.
Species
There are two species within the genus Saulea:- † Saulea lithoides (Pain & Beatty, 1964) - in East Africa
- Saulea vitrea (Born, 1780) - type species - in West Africa