{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Paramelania damoni shell.png | image_caption = Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of ''Paramelania damoni'' | taxon = Paramelania | authority = E. A. Smith, 1881<ref name="Smith 1881">Smith E. A. (1881). "Descriptions of two new Species of Shells from Lake Tanganyika". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' '''1881''': [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen81zool#page/558/mode/1up 558]-560.</ref> | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = <ref name="Brown 1994">Brown D. S. (1994). ''Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance''. Taylor & Francis. {{ISBN|0-7484-0026-5}}. pages 149-150, 577-578.</ref> | diversity = 2 described species, possibly more species }}
'''''Paramelania''''' is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.<!-- Paramelania is the type species of Paramelaniidae, that is a synonym of Tiphobiini --><ref>{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref>
== Distribution == Species of the genus ''Paramelania'' live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.<ref name="Brown 1994"/>
==Species== There are two described species within the genus ''Paramelania'' and there may be more:<ref name="Brown 1994"/> * ''Paramelania damoni'' (Smith, 1881)<ref name="Smith 1881"/> - type species, it is a species or an aggregate species<ref name="Brown 1994"/> * ''Paramelania iridescens'' (Moore, 1898)<ref name="Brown 1994"/>
== Description == The type description of the genus ''Paramelania'' by Edgar Albert Smith (1881)<ref name="Smith 1881"/> reads as follows:
{{cquote| Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate, longitudinally ribbed and transversely lirate, covered with a thin epidermis. Aperture ovate, entire, indistinctly effuse at the base. Last whorl sometimes slightly prolonged inferiorly. Peristome thick, margins joined by a callosity. Operculum like that of ''Tiphobia''. }}
==References== This article incorporates public domain text from the references<ref name="Smith 1881"/> {{Reflist}}
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Category:Paludomidae Category:Taxa named by Edgar Albert Smith Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Snails of Lake Tanganyika