Paramelania damoni

Paramelania damoni is a species of tropical freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Paludomidae.

[1][4] The distribution of this species includes Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.

The uppermost, which defines the upper end of the costae, is produced into very short hollow scales or spines upon the ribs; and the second and sometimes the third have the same character in a less marked degree.

Aperture obliquely ovate, occupying about half the length of the shell, covered with a slight callus deposit far within, not quite obscuring the external coloration.

Upper end of labrum joined to the base by a rather thick defined callosity, which spreads over the body-whorl within the mouth.

Drawing of an apertural view of a shell described as Paramelania crassigranulata . Paramelania crassigranulata was recognized as a form of Paramelania damoni by Brown (1994). [ 3 ]