Filopaludina

Filopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of Filopaludina includes Southeast Asia.

Species

Species within the genus Filopaludina are within two subgenera and they include:

subgenus Siamopaludina Brandt, 1968

• Filopaludina javanica <small>(von dem Busch, 1844)</small>
• Filopaludina maekoki <small>(Brandt, 1968)</small>
• Filopaludina martensi <small>(Frauenfeld, 1865)</small>
• Filopaludina martensi cambodiensis <small>Brandt, 1974</small>
• Filopaludina martensi martensi <small>(Frauenfeld, 1865)</small>
• Filopaludina martensi munensis <small>Brandt, 1974</small>

subgenus Filopaludina <small>Habe, 1964</small>

• Filopaludina filosa <small>(Reeve, 1863)</small>
• Filopaludina miveruensis <small>Smith</small>
• Filopaludina sumatrensis <small>(Dunker, 1852)</small>
• Filopaludina sumatrensis peninsularis <small>Brandt, 1974</small>

subgenus ?

• Filopaludina bengalensis <small>(Lamarck, 1818)</small>
• Filopaludina munensis

Synonyms:

• Filopaludina doliaris (Gould, 1844) is a synonym of Idiopoma doliaris (Gould, 1844)
• Filopaludina mandahlbarthi is a synonym of Sinotaia mandahlbarthi Brandt, 1968
• Filopaludina quadrata (Benson, 1842) is a synonym of Sinotaia quadrata (Benson, 1842)
• Filopaludina simonis Bavay, 1898 is a synonym of Idiopoma simonis Bavay, 1898

Ecology

Filopaludina sp. from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.

References

• Brandt R.A.M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423