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Oncomelania
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Oncomelania

Oncomelania is a genus of very small tropical freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.

These Oncomelania snails are distantly related to the marine periwinkle, and more closely related to the small marine snails of the family Rissoidae.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Oncomelania hupensis

speciesOncomelania hupensis

Oncomelania minima

speciesOncomelania minima

Oncomelania moellendorffi

speciesOncomelania moellendorffi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 149902.