Paludina catayensis Heude, 1890 (orthographic error) Paludina cathayensis Heude, 1890 Cipangopaludina cathayensis is a species of large, freshwater snail with an operculum and a gill, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails.

This species was described under the name Paludina catayensis by French Jesuit Pierre Marie Heude in 1890.

[3] There is high intraspecific variation of shells within the genus Cipangopaludina,[3] so Wilhelm Kobelt (1909)[4] considered this taxon as a subspecies of Vivipara chinensis.

Later authors Yen (1943), Liu (1991) and Lu et al (2014)[3] considered this taxon as a separate species.

[6] It inhabits lakes, reservoirs and ponds, as well as grassy paddies, where it clings to aquatic plants.