| Filopaludina | |
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| Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Filopaludina martensi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Viviparidae |
| Subfamily: | Bellamyinae |
| Genus: | Filopaludina Habe, 1964 |
| Type species | |
| Paludina bengalensis Lamarck, 1818 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Filopaludina is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Viviparidae.
The indigenous distribution of Filopaludina includes Southeast Asia.
Species within the genus Filopaludina are within two subgenera and they include:
subgenus Siamopaludina Brandt, 1968
subgenus Filopaludina Habe, 1964
subgenus ?
Synonyms:
Filopaludina sp. from Vietnam serves as a second intermediate host for the parasitic fluke Echinostoma revolutum.
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