Paramelania is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Paludomidae.

[3] Species of the genus Paramelania live in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.

[2] There are two described species within the genus Paramelania and there may be more:[2] The type description of the genus Paramelania by Edgar Albert Smith (1881)[1] reads as follows: Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate, longitudinally ribbed and transversely lirate, covered with a thin epidermis.

Aperture ovate, entire, indistinctly effuse at the base.

Operculum like that of Tiphobia.This article incorporates public domain text from the references[1]