Parafossarulus is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Bithyniidae.Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus Annandale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758823 on 2014-11-19
Species Species within the genus Parafossarulus include: Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus anomalospiralis Liu, Li & Liu, 1985. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759213 on 2014-05-16 † Parafossarulus crassitesta (Bröhmme, 1885) Parafossarulus eximius (Frauenfeld)Madhyastha A. & Jinghua F. (2014). "Parafossarulus eximius". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T166250A1122592. Downloaded on 26 December 2015. Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994Bouchet, P. (2014). Parafossarulus globosus Liu, Zhang & Wang, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758826 on 2014-05-16 † Parafossarulus priscillae Girotti, 1972 Parafossarulus manchouricus (Gerstfeldt in Bourguignat, 1860) Parafossarulus spiridonovi Zatrawkin & Starobogatov in Zatrawkin, Dovgalev & Starobogatov, 1989 Parafossarulus striatulus (Benson, 1842) - type species Parafossarulus sungariensis Moskvicheva in Starobogatov, Zatravkin, 1987
Taxonomy Glöer (2002)Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., , page 190-194. reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus into a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but the genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for the Asian species.
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