Culmenella

Culmenella
Culmenella lineata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superorder:	Hygrophila
Family:	Planorbidae
Genus:	Culmenella Clench, 1927
Synonyms
Bulinus (Culmenella) Clench, 1927 Camptoceras (Culmenella) Clench, 1927 Culmenella (Culmenellina) Starobogatov & Prozorova, 1990; junior synonym

Culmenella is a genus of freshwater gastropods in the family Planorbidae.

Taxonomy

Culmenella was originally described as a subgenus of Bulinus by Clench in 1927. Culmenella prashadi is the type species.

Species

The species in this genus are as follows:

References

• Starobogatov Ya.I., Prozorova L.A. (1990). Species composition of the family Bulinidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in the waterbodies of the USSR (with notes on the system of subfamily Camptoceratinae). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal. 69 (4): 27-37. (In Russian).
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent freshwater/brackish Gastropoda of the World. Last update: January 24th, 2018.
• Vinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp.

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