Tylomelania: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Pachychilidae
- Genus
- Tylomelania
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Tylomelania
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tylomelania
Tylomelania is a genus of freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pachychilidae. In the aquarium hobby, snails from this genus are commonly known as "rabbit snails" (not to be confused with sea hares).
A sister group (the closest relative) of Tylomelania is genus Pseudopotamis (two species living on the Torres Strait Islands). Tylomelania and Pseudopotamis split in the Middle Miocene c. 19.5 Mya.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Tylomelania abendanoni
- Tylomelania amphiderita
- Tylomelania bakara
- Tylomelania carbo
- Tylomelania carota
- Tylomelania celebicola
- Tylomelania centaurus
- Tylomelania confusa
- Tylomelania connectens
- Tylomelania gemmifera
- Tylomelania helmuti
- Tylomelania inconspicua
- Tylomelania insulaesacrae
- Tylomelania kristinae
- Tylomelania kruimeli
- Tylomelania kuli
- Tylomelania lalemae
- Tylomelania mahalonensis
- Tylomelania marwotoae
- Tylomelania masapensis
- Tylomelania matannensis
- Tylomelania molesta
- Tylomelania neritiformis
- Tylomelania palicolarum
- Tylomelania patriarchalis
- Tylomelania perfecta
- Tylomelania porcellanica
- Tylomelania robusta
- Tylomelania sarasinorum
- Tylomelania scalariopsis
- Tylomelania tominangensis
- Tylomelania tomoriensis
- Tylomelania toradjarum
- Tylomelania towutensis
- Tylomelania towutica
- Tylomelania turriformis
- Tylomelania wallacei
- Tylomelania wesseli
- Tylomelania wolterecki
- Tylomelania zeamais




















